Finding your buyers criteria.

[Antonio Bodley]

When you find your buyers to wholesale deals to, how do you find what your buyers are looking for? I mean do you ride around the neighborhood locating what they want, pay someome else to find the deals, or use advertisement? If you ride around the neighborhood to locate the deals they want, how does that work out for you. Lets say you find a buyer who is looking for a 3 bed 2 bathroom house built in 1960. How would you be able to locate their criteria just by riding through some random area looking at homes without being able to see the homes from the inside to tell how many bedrooms and bathrooms it has or what year it was built. I use to bird dog for some that was extremely specific about the type of houses he wanted and it was difficult to locate a specific house for this investor. Sure I travel around some random spot looking at homes I guess could match their criteria. The problem is without having inside access to these vacant homes, I wouldn't know upfront if it matches my buyers criteria based on the number or bedrooms and bathrooms they want or the year it was built. I could care less about the year built but this picky investor I birddooged for did care.