Direct mail

[Jerryll Noorden]

Hello all.

An other quick question.

I know that direct mailing does not give immediate results. It takes time and perseverance/consistency.

But isn't the whole point of targeted lists to find people that NEED to sell their house fast?

If it takes 6 months to convince anyone to sell their house, how distressed are they really?

I always thought you would mail 2000 card, and then sit back and let the leads come in. Just recently has a user here pointed me to some posts and now I see how it really works.

But it doesn't make sense to me as stated above.

Input?

See here is my dilemma.

My plans were to stay one more month in CT to try out the market  before I move back to FL. (I already paid my rent for Feb). If I go back to FL I will never know how it would have been if I tried it here in CT.

But now of course that plan is going to heck because I would need to invest 6 months into marketing. And staying in CT means I would have double rent to pay.

My criteria for staying here was, if I can get 1 deal in this month I would stay. So now I have a tough decision to make.

[Jason D.]

How much did you spend to mail out the post cards? How much will one more month of rent cost? Why would you have to be in CT for whole sale to work? You can still take calls and emails while in FL. I would say just cut your losses and start over in FL.