Marketing to Buyers and Sellers

For those of you who don't know me, I'm huge on marketing! I use yellow signs, letters, post cards,write articles, make phone calls, word of mouth ( I tell everyone I buy houses for cash with other cash investors throughout "YOUR COUNTY"), and I always follow up with potential clients. What I've done is arranged an email thread between myself and one of my newly committed cash buyers that I brought on board last night at a diner. It was one of those informal business dinner meetings. You will see that with a 28 cent post card, an ink pen, and a simple post card message to a cash buyer will pay big bucks down the road. Here you go - ENJOY!

From: Todd (Cash Buyer)
Sent: Tue, May 25, 2010 8:07:38 AM
Subject: Houses for sale

Hi Gary-

So as Ive been reading through Deans books and going through the website, Ive thought the whole time building a sellers list will be the easy part and building the buyers list, especially cash buyers, will probably be more difficult. I am focusing on contracts to start, have a buyers list ready to go (with a couple literally ready to buy today) and have no properties to put on contract and sell them. So far I have been looking online at websites like Zillow, looked in the classifieds here, used search engines like google, have responded to for rent ads on Craiglsist (which seems to be the most promising yet), ads on this site, and of course am constantly looking when driving.

I recently saw a show where Dean was discussing a new website, where he/we, can put together motivated sellers, with motivated buyers! I only saw it once in my market, (San Francisco), and haven't seen it again.

Can anyone tell me where to find THIS particular website, or provide more info on it?

Thanks for any help!
Barry (bpa)

Hi
This is allen blackwell and we are having a difficult time finding investors in our (Nacogdoches Texas) area. If you know of anyone close to this area or someone interested in this area please let us know.

thanks

Hi Guys,

how do i do lease option deals online?

Many Thanx,
George

Whether you're a novice investor or a seasoned investor, or have a few deals under your belt, a large majority of us will begin our real investor career by first looking for houses. I love being a property scout! I prefer using this terms over a bird dogger because it just sounds better. The approach of find houses is good but what does that house have to have in order for a deal to manifest? It needs to have a motivated SELLER!

Growing up, I used to LOVE receiving postcards in the mail from my grandma when she and my grandpa were away on vacation. They would send me a postcard about every three days until they returned. I enjoyed those postcards because it made me feel as if I were there with them and it brought joy to my day.

Postcards are the mail that everyone reads! All you have to do is see the front, flip it over, and read the quick 5-7 sentence postcard and that's that!

I've applied this simple strategy into my direct marketing and I've been asked to provide some additonal insight on how I do it and what I write on them. You asked, so you shall receive:

Postcard one: ( My initial postcard to the owner of a vacant house)

Dear (NAME),

Great blog here.

All about marketing for real estate investors.

Some links to some free stuff. A link to Screentoaster? Do you guys use it? It's great AND free.

http://realestateinvestorwebsites.blogspot.com/

Through a realestate contact of mine I got wind of a 20 acre lot in Delaware. Tho lot will sell for 300,000 and right now the average 1 acre lot around here sells from 40 to 50k. Low cost provides a great return on your investment. So with every lot sold at 40k u can stand to make a whopping 800k!!! Or more!!!

I am a new investor and just looking to get my feet wet structuring deals much like this one, as there are tons of low cost multiple acre lots in Delaware. All of these lots can be set up for housing apaprment complexes or single family homes. The options are limitless.

For more information please contact me here at the site.

Happy Investing and Good Luck
Julian

Go to Google and put "we buy house"+"San Antonio, tx" and look for local ads of people who are looking for property to buy. Following is a simple script to follow.

Calling Buyers Ads

You buy houses, is that right? Are you a wholesaler or a rehabber?

I have a knack of finding houses as a “discount.”

Let me ask you, would you be interested if I called you with a property to invest in? Yes

Ask:
Is there a particular area that you are looking?
What is your price range?
Number of bedrooms and bathrooms
What kind of a discount

For example, if I had a property with a FMV of 100K, what would you have to buy it for?

Does that include the rehab price?
How many properties can you handle on a monthly basis?

We are looking for rehabbers not wholesalers.