Connected Investors PiN tool

[Daniel Blackford]

I had limited success for a three day trial period using Connected Investors PiN tool. Two challenges. I needed guidance during the trial period and received no response to two emails. My thought there is if they are trying to earn my business during a trial period but don't respond to very basic usage questions, what kind of customer service will I receive as a subscriber.  I burned off 1 1/2 days of my three day trial and cancelled it before my commitment went hard. Second, I am very interested in the PiN tool. It seems to create an efficiency  - once you learn to navigate its possibilities - for research etcetera. Given that it has a pricey entry point ($1497 for the first six months then $97.00 a month thereafter) does anyone have any longer term success experience with PiN? Successes and limitations?

[Joshua Kulzer]

Hey all - this is probably a bad first impression because what I am posting is mostly negative.  I am actually a very positive person and very excited about real estate investing.  I decided to give PiN a try.  I was SO wary, that instead of giving me a 3 day trial, they gave me a 7 day trial and the added another 3 months to my option for no payments.  This is all very enticing, but dropping $1497 ($1500) on an unproven product has proven to not be worth it.  Needless to say, I just cancelled my PiN membership.  

I have found that the data is highly inaccurate, the site is slow, and thus, it's a huge waste of time.   When you can't trust the data, you have to go back to the manual way of doing things anyway.  

Here's my email to my representative over at Connected Investors:

It's not looking good for PiN. MOST of the data on properties in there is inaccurate. Properties that should be in there are NOT. There was even a property listed as vacant with a street view picture, but the property had actually been torn down. PiN is not worth the extra work that I have to do following up on every lead, because I can't trust any of them I have to manually verify every piece of data. That's a waste of my time, and time is money. Not to mention, the site is extremely slow and cumbersome. I understand that it is pulling a lot of data, but most of the data is garbage, so you guys need to work on a way to pull in good current data. Nobody believes that you are using drone technology to scope out deals, and if you were using the same sources for your information that I was using prior to taking the leap to your platform, your data would be accurate. Please issue me a full refund for PiN. When you guys improve it, let me know.

SO - that's it for now.  Has anyone else had a better experience?  All of their demos show properties in FL and NC.  I'm in the Kansas City market.  Not sure if that would have anything to do with the data being bad or not.  

One of the tools that I have been using is Deal Machine. I use it all the time in conjunction with the MLS Portal and even Zillow to look for deals when I'm not driving for dollars.

I would LOVE to hear about anyone who IS using technology in a creative way to generate leads.  I've listened to a good number of the podcasts and there have been some interesting systems that folks have put together by blending different platforms and strategies to help streamline their businesses.  

If you read this, I appreciate it!  If you have a PiN experience that you can share, I would love to hear/read it!  If you would like to connect with me, please feel free!  I am always open to cultivating new relationships.

Thank you,

Josh