Marketing to Buyers and Sellers

Does Dean's Real Estate Success Academy offer an affiliate program?

If you are interested in finding GREAT deals for me in Florida, please respond here. I live in NJ but am interested in purchasing property in Florida.

Thank You for your time.

John

When you've found a Motivated Seller you'll know it. You'll see it in their Eyes or Hear it in their Voices. They need the Bleeding to stop and your the Cutman!!! Trust me when I say this, you don't Beg, Persuade, or Coddle anyone!!! Their either in or their out! Ya know sometimes it's important to count the No's as a Positive. Because you have to get the no's, sometimes 25, 35 or even 105 Noooooooo's to get the $5000, $10,000 or $25,000 YES. But you know that with Persistence and Determination even 200 no's won't stop ya!

I have read most of Dean's book by now, and done some research on my own and it seems that the lowest risk to break in to this real-estate investing is through wholesaleing or assigning investors with sellers. From what i understand a wholesaler goes out and looks for properties after he/she has a buyers list. Once he/she has locked up a deal, they assign it to the investor and write this in the contract. Is this correct or am I reading it wrong? Thanks

How many of you are members of Dean's Real Estate Success Academy? If you are, then you already know about Web 2.0 Marketing! Please share your successes here!

If you aren't a member of Deans's Academy, then you might not know what Web 2.0 Marketing is. Hopefully, there will be a long list of posts here very soon that will help you.

I set up my website from Dean. I have no homes to put on it yet, so I am leary of marketing the website.

In Dean's most recent book he discussed holding the 7-day auctions. This struck an idea I had to get homes on my website.

I was thinking of offering FSBO a chance to place their homes on my website for free. Has anyone done this or a 7-day auction before?

Kat

I just got a call on my "looking for investors" craigslist ad. There is a company in my area who helps people find affordable housing(either those have just lost their house to foreclosure or just those who just need help). This organization works directly with investos around the area who hire them to find great deals on apartments and single family homes! Sounds familiar, right? Well, this organization is so busy, they don't have enough resources to cover all of their needs. So they called me!

Here is the question I've asked my Realtor (worded differently). I'm asking here to see if anyone has had experience with it.

Here is my situation, I travel a lot with my job. In fact I'm only home on Friday to Monday, every other week. For each job I generally stay in one area for months at a time. I'm interested in doing IEE type deals to investors and individuals using the same methods I am back home. (Love the multiple extensions on the 1-800 number!)

What incentives could you give your buyers?

Give out coupons at your Open House:
>>Good for $1,000 ($2K,$3K?) a home purchase from Buyers Match LLC!! (expires 12-31-09) (example)

>>We'll throw in a brand new appliance of your choice! What would YOU like new? Stove, refrigerator, washer, dryer, a NEW TV?? Let's talk!

>>Seller will pay buyer's closing costs!

>>We'll pre-pay your heating bill for next winter! Don't sweat the cold!!

>>We'll make your first 3 mortgage payments! Take a breather while you're settling in!

I live in MN and noticed that there has been much less activity on billboards for "We Buy Ugly Houses" and posters on light posts for "We Buy Houses." I guess it could be because I live in MN and we are just coming out of a snowy, cold winter. Does anyone else know why there would be less activity like this?