TRACKING absentee owners down and DOOR KNOCKING

[Evan Poole]

Good Morning,

I wanted to know this question for a long time now. I know most people that get into wholesaling send out yellow letters or postcards to absentee owners in hoping to get a call back.  My question is:

If the absentee owner is local and I located their  "CURRENT ADDRESS" using the  county's property appraisal  information. Can I go to the current address and door knock to speak with them in person about the vacant house??

It is legal??

[Frank Chin]

Originally posted by @Mark Thomas:

Where in America is it illegal to knock on somebody's door?

 There are laws regulating "door to door solicitation" and I doubt many go around door knocking are even aware of. For New York State see: Solicitation

Actual ordinances is on the county and city levels, see: Local solicitation

To conform to these laws, persons soliciting must register, wear a certain photo id, and solicit during certain hours, check non solicitation registries. How many door knocking investors do this? Here in NYC, property owners can put up "No solicitation" signs and it must be honored.

But when I started real estate investing, partnered with an agent where the real estate broker required his agents to go around door knocking. He did it for a year and got no deals out of it.

So when you go around ringing doorbells, knocking on doors, be aware of these regulations.