Ultimate Complete List of Strategies to Find Motivated Sellers

[Joe Cassandra]

My wife and I are starting our real estate flipping company next month. 

We'll have our first rental (already have the tenant). Plus, have a couple hot leads thanks to the tactics here. 

Take a look at every single lead gen idea we have. There are 54 of them.:

(I have a feeling we're missing one obvious one, what is it?):

Referrals

Door Knocking

Drive for Dollars

Every neighborhood I visit, look at surrounding houses

Hudstore.com

Auction.com

MLS

Sheriff sales/courthouse steps

Networking at events (REIA, Meetup, business owners)

Pass biz cards out everywhere (guerrila marketing)

Local wholesalers

Network with real estate agents who invest

Network with real estate agents who regularly sell flips

Network with agents who specialize in REO

Network with divorce attorneys

Network with estate attorneys

Network with bankruptcy lawyers

Network with trust attorneys

Network with title companies

Network with funeral homes

Network with REO brokers

Network with funeral homes

Advertise in local newspapers/magazines

Advertise in Church bulletin

Advertise in church city paper

Local billboards

Direct mail to preforeclosure

Direct mail to tired landlords

Direct mail to landlords who filed evictions

Direct mail to owners with 100% equity

Direct mail to homes with recent deaths

Direct mail to owners around flipped house

Direct mail to houses with water turned off

Direct mail to houses that just came out of trusts

Build my own list to email and follow up with them

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) + content

Cold email sellers/renters on Craigslist

Facebook ads targeting: investors, wholesalers,sellers

Build an Instagram following showing renovations

Google adwords targeting sellers

Bing ads targeting sellers

Go to yard sales and talk to owners (if selling)

Go to estate sales and talk to owners (if selling)

Posters in unemployment office (legal?)

Radio ads (21 per week...find unsold inventory)

TV (unsold inventory)

Podcast interviews (especially local ones)

Get featured in papers/magazines locally

Sponsor local team/high school

Local advertising on Pandora/Spotify

Pre-recorded message pre-selling service

Valpak

JV with builders increasing value in area

Visit nursing homes

QUESTIONS FOR YOU: 

1. What strategies ARE MISSING?

2. Which of the strategies have you personally tried and it DID NOT WORK?

3. Which do you specialize in?