Please Help BP my buyers list has stalled

[Willie Mckinney]

Hello Bp
I am a investor in Northwest Oh. I have done a few contract assignments and I am trying to build my buyer's list. I make post to my Facebook real estate groups, I post on Craigslist and backpages and linkedin advertising for buyers and I don't get nearly the response I think I should be getting. What else should I be doing to increase my list. When I get properties under contract, I make signs advertising the property. Non the less my list is not growing, please help.

[Michael G.]

When I had to fatten up my buyers list I went to my favorite realtor and had them run a report of all the short-sale and REO properties in zip code xxxxx (insert zip code of area where you want to buy properties here) knowing full well that the buyers of these properties will probably be cash rehab investors who flip houses.

I took that report to the county clerks office and looked up the deeds for those properties which gave me the purchaser(cash buyer) and their address.

Some of those same purchasers had bought several properties for cash in the last 12 months.

I then sent them all a form letter stating that I have come across fixer properties to call me to discuss future fixer's I may come across.

These were not tire kicker's. These were real players (alot of them were listed as corporations on the deeds) who are in the business of flipping buying houses.

So when they call I collect cell phone numbers, email addresses, what type of houses they like and what price range so I have all the right info when I come across a deal.

And they do call...usually 2 - 3 days after I mail out the letter.

This is going to cost you time and the price of the gas to get to the county court house.