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Updated over 9 years ago on . Most recent reply

Any ideas on new places to find buyers?
I've been to most of the REIA's in town, a lot of repeat investors. I've just about tapped out craigslist and I'm running out of leads to call. Any ideas on where to find new buyers?
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You can have all the buyers you want right at your fingertips. Right in public records.
I keep preaching this to everyone who will listen, but everything you need for a true biz in a box is right in public records.
You can find all the sellers you need, buyers you want and even the money to put it all together.
I just gave you a link along with doing the search for you for the clerk of courts buyers list just from the last 10 days.
In case it won't let you keep it, just click on the link, then search by document type, document type is deed, then put in a date range. (Down in south Florida, if you put anything longer than a week you will exceed their parameters)
Now what you have is a list of buyers and seller that have bought property in broward within the last 2-3 weeks. (The side that it says "to" is your buyer or in your case "first indirect party")
Obviously, 80-90% of those listed are going to be home owners so just sift through looking for business names, land trusts and their trustees, and obvious investors. (Obvious investors are the ones you are going to see numerous times in your search with different legal discriptions)
(When seeing biz names, skip the ones that are banks and financial institutions, those are REO's, also regarding biz owners, pay special attn to the ones with property and home buyer and investor keywords in the name)
Once you have their names, most of these people will be relatively easy to find. (Hint: biz owners Secretary of State, land trust, look at the deed and reverse search the mailing address, you'll have broken the trust 70-80% of the time... Separate hint to investors using land trusts.. 80-90% of the time, your trusts are so easy to break invalidating the whole purpose of a land trust (anonymity.. Btw, parenthesis within a parenthesis, that is some high level punctuation) the only true way to keep your self anonymous is to hire an Atty for $100 a year (average price for trustee) and have the mail go to him... Or at least get a po box and only use it for land trusts. Obvious owners, Google them or check their name in this search, manytimes you'll see that they are land lords, and if they are you will see an eviction with their phone number on it)
Also for further tips on locating numbers, see a previous post I did on finding phone numbers.
Also if you are looking for a specific buyer for a specific property, take my mentors advice. "You can market all over the world, but your real buyer is just a stones throw away."
Most property appraisers in Florida have a sales search option that allows you do a search of specific criteria or target area. Again the link for broward sales search is below. (I couldn't do the search for you because I don't have your property address but if you need help, pm me and I'll take you through it step by step)
This second way is by far the most effective way to find a specific buyer for your specific property. Here you still look for the biz owners, land trusts and trustees and obvious investors. (Again obvious investors are people with numerous homes in your neighborhood search... Not likely they have their summer home that close to their primary)
Anyway, once you've found them call them and tell them you have a property in their area that you are selling for an amazing deal, I guarantee they will thank you.
Hope this helps
http://www.bcpa.net/RecSale.asp
https://officialrecords.broward.org/oncoreV2/searc...