Marketing to Buyers and Sellers

Expired Listings

When a Real Estate Broker takes a sales contract (a listing) on a property and is unable to sell it in the time allotted, the listing expires on a stated date, and the expiration of the listing appears in the local Multiple Listing Service (MLS) bulletin and is at that point up for grabs for anyone intrepid enough to contact the owner of the property. Typically these expired listings are published daily or at least once or twice per week, and for the eyes of the MLS Member-agent only.

The information normally available in record is:

The property address,
Square feet,
Date taken off the market,
Most recent asking price,
A description of the accoutrements,
Year built
Lot size.
(In some areas) the name and address of the former listing agent

HOT OFF THE PRESSES! Some of You have been emailing, messaging and Asking about BUSINESS CARDS.

There have been numerous posts, articles and questions encompassing the task of: Making, Printing, Lead Generation, Ghosting of REI Business Cards.

!!!!!!!!!! FINALLY! HERE THEY ARE !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Download, Preview, Print, Save, Customize, Mix N Match.

Has anyone had major success in obtaining leads and closing deals from online marketing such as website, etc.?

If so, what methods were implemented.

All comments welcome!

Building and Developing Your Buyers List

Before you begin prospecting for profitable short sale opportunities you must build and develop your buyers list. If you’ve studied my course then you have enough knowledge to locate and close as many short sales as you are willing to work for, but the most important piece of the puzzle is having buyers on hand waiting to buy your short sale deals.

When you're finding buyers for rent to own deals what information should you collect from them?

All right, I need an expert out there who has experience in selling land successfully. I have a lot in the Poconos, absolutely gorgeous area, in a pristine high end association.

I do not know anything about marketing land or how to find land buyers.

My angle will be to seek out builders in the area, but I want to shoot this by you guys to see what other ideas flow.

I am already offerering seller financing, 100% if wanted, with an impound for taxes and HOA dues. Any other angles and ideas would be so appreciated! Thanks DG Family!

Hello DG Family! As some of you already know I've uploaded several various tool resources for everyone to enjoy!

NOW, comes Your part.

Are there ANY requests, thoughts or tools you can think of that will help, inspire or just make REI life a little easier? Please let me know. I will then look through my literal "thousands of files" and we will continue from there. I feel this will help cut down on unnecessary posts and clutter. Majority will rank first when it comes to priority. Keep those requests coming! And, in the meantime have fun, keep reading and continue networking.

So I ran an ad for a house that I am looking to have on contract by the end of the week and got a bite. To make a long story short the possbile buyer stated that the house was a little too big for what he was looking for. I then inquired, "well what is it that you are looking for" and we got talking about what I do. He immediately wanted to be put on my buyers list. He is also intrigued on what I am doing as HE normally buys houses, sits on them and trys to sell them. He now wants to know how we can help each other out. In addition, he owns a construction/property management business and does ground up builds, has his own rental props etc etc. I know we can help each other and I want to tell him I can, I just cant put my finger on the details on how we can?

We all know how getting a phone number that can be memorable, is important to your business. I am trying to get into flipping houses and have been looking for a phone number that reads something like (123)-FOR-CASH. Unfortunately, the phone companies do not have any of those numbers available.

It therefor came as a RELIEF to me when google voice was released a few weeks ago allowing you to get very memorable numbers that can be linked to any phone of your choice. I am happy to say that i got two of those numbers for free.

You see, i just got my real estate license and wanted two numbers to establish my credibility. I needed one for my real estate investing business and another for my real estate agency business, and i got both of them.

Need to Sell Your House? Cut the Price
By Nick Timiraos – WSJ-7-19-10

Home sellers learned a painful lesson in June: if you want to sell right now, lower the price.

June marked the second month with no more $8,000 tax credit for home buyers, and some 24% of all listings that were on the market as of July 1 had experienced at least one price reduction, up from 9% of all listings one month earlier, according to real-estate website Trulia.com.

The average price drop—at 10%—was unchanged from one month earlier. But more markets saw bigger price reductions, led by Minneapolis, where 40% of listings had been reduced in price since listing. One third of all homes in Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz., have had their prices cut.