Weird Ways to Find Motivated Sellers

[Brandi Young]

I am a firm believer in getting people to call you rather than spending hours calling unmotivated people.

As a fun topic, I'd like to ask: What is the wierdest thing you have done to get motivated sellers to call you?? We all know the traditional ways - so what I am talking about here is the more bizarre attempts to get leads. So let's hear it!

What did you do?
How did it work?
Would you do it again?

I'll start this off....

I once emailed a single dollar bill (crisp and brand new) to every pre-foreclosure I looked up at the courthouse. On a Post-It Note stuck to the dollar was a simple message that said,

"One Dollar - One Chance
Don't throw either away.
Call 555-5555 today to fix
your housing situation."

I consider the response decent. Out of 250 mailouts I got about 35 calls, met with 8 sellers and bought 2 houses.

OK your turn.

[Ned Carey]

I haven't done this myself but I thought it was a great idea.

An investor printed up rectangular post it notes with a big red stripe down one end saying NOTICE. It looked like a violation notice or something important. When you read it, it said "I want to buy your house."

He slapped these on the front door of houses in Baltimore city, where there are a lot of properties in distress. I thought it was pretty clever. It sure got my attention, just driving by in a car.