All Forum Posts by: William Huston

Here are some before and after pics of them setting one up for sale.. 

I own a house in Ocala, FL that was passed to me from grandparents. I don't personally live in it, but trying to rent it out to regular renters it only pulls $950-1000/month, but it ends up vacant for months between renters due to lack of income in the area its located and to far from the main city. Its close to the horse racing area of Ocala, so we put it up for AIRBNB last year for the first time and it booked up December-March @ 4k/Month for the winter circuit with the occasional rent out for a few days a month since.. So in less than a year on AIRBNB ive pulled in 18k in rent vs 11-12k previously.. 

I am also looking for my first flip, but wanted to add that there is a group in my area that flips homes regularly and they have prop furniture for flips for staging and such.. like plastic and cardboard replicas and such.. looks decent in person, in pictures you cant tell it is fake.. 

I recently completed Robyn Thompson's bootcamp and i feel very comfortable with determining rehab cost on a property after that course, because i was within 3% of the prices she estimated after we did our estimates in person on multiple properties during the course. 

So i get home and make up the letters and sent out 500 letters to out of state owners of over 7+ years in areas i want to work out of and i've not gotten a single call yet to date. Im starting to question the idea of wholesaling for properties to flip or wholesale.. feel like the market is empty right now...

@Jane Entroliso

How do you typically go about getting the subject to properties. I have been searching for income properties myself and ive never been able to get over the talk of me taking over the payments for them part.. 

I am in search of the perfect setup for me to start using and grow into as i become more successful as a Realtor. My biggest issue right now is tracking SOI and leads

I was leaning heavily toward using Podio and actually spent many hours of the past few days reading, and watching videos about Podio and i was all excited to signup for the software due to all the functions it is capable of doing with Globiflow, but when i called in to signup today, they sticker shocked me by telling me that it would be $120+/Month to gain access to the globiflow program. 

So i was a little upset about this, because it takes away most of the real automation away from podio if you dont use globiflow and currently with me being new i felt like it was a lot for a CRM currently. I did read that you can use advanced workflows to create buttons in podio and have a semi-auto setup, but the few sites i found that people talked about making it work outside of paying the $120+ for globiflow seemed to feel like its very limited. 

The features i was really looking forward to in Podio were:

the tracking of email/sms with contacts

the ability to create contract pdf's quickly

automated reminders and task

automated drip campaigns with fully customization templates that pre-populate

So i started searching online and found someone on youtube who briefly mentioned about how he has his MojoSells account connected to his Podio account through Zapier and he only pays $10/month, because he really no longer uses Mojosells for cold calling anymore now that his SOI is large enough that he can follow-up with his SOI daily for referrals. He stated that he uses Mojo for his appt, task, followup functions since its easier to read and navigate, but anytime he adds a contact to mojo under specific groups, they are zapped over to Podio. If the lead is a seller listing his house he just clicks a few buttons specifying which forms to use and it then generates the contract with the prefilled data all within a few seconds for him to send out for signatures or printing. The guy stated he was an REO agent, so it saves him hundreds of hours a year using podio.

So i started digging into it more trying to figure out how he is able to do some of these functions without globiflow and i found that he used Podio API to have someone customize his semi-auto setup for him for a flat fee. 

What do yall think? is there something im missing or something better? My broker offers a lot of what i would call a CRM, but its extremely limited and missing features i think i need in the near future. I can see the benefit of Globiflow, but as a new agent im having a hard time accepting that price. Im kinda thinking instead of spending the $120 on Globiflow, i could invest the $89 into a single line dialer on Mojo and use that to prospect while i build my SOI tell i no longer need the dialer. 

@Dale Shin

That is interesting, i was actually very interested in the reverse phone search part because i can get the expireds daily through my MLS, but i struggle to find the phone numbers from these folks. I have been going to the houses directly, but i find in most cases they are not home or they are vacant even though the MLS expired listing says its owner occupied.

why would you email the flyers to realtors?

@Eric W.

You would be very shocked how many listing agents have a list of houses that they promised to do an open house for the owner and usually put it off in hopes of the house selling quickly in the first 30 or so days, because they say they are to busy to do them or they are not worth the time in regards to money...

I am a fairly new agent who is leaning toward being a listing agent only, but i'm trying to understand the marketing side of things as i've already had 6 appts for listings in my first 5 weeks that i'm continuing to follow up with tell i can convert them.

My question is how many people actually print their own flyers? I am not sure how much of it returns back on your taxes as expense as this is my first year so if you can inform me on that i would greatly appreciate that. What i'm seeing from the big teams in my office is that they typically order like 1,000 flyers on 100lb gloss paper after they get a listing under contract. I'm not sure how much they are spending on those 1000 flyers, but since ive been up at the office a lot lately for training, i've noticed that every week they are throwing away boxes of flyers that never went out due to the house selling right away or things tied up the team before they could fully handout the flyers.. but soooo much goes to waste it seems. I got some quotes from local companies for 1,000 flyers and the cheapest has been around $180... 

I recently invested in a high end business laser printer and have been thinking of maybe just printing off as i need them in full duplex front and back on 100lb paper. I was up at staples today and they sell cases of 2400 sheets of 100lb glossy paper for $91 bucks. Ive already burned through 2 x 500 page reams with all toners reporting over 75% still. Ive also ordered a set of 4 toners off amazon for $42 just in case.