The best wholesaling idea I ever heard...

[Kenneth E.]

One of the best suggestions I ever heard of, I learned right here on BP. Ready? Here it is.

If u are lucky enough to be able to get your local assessment data in spreadsheet format (purchased from your courthouse), sort the list by where the owner lives, and delete all those who live in the same state. That is, keep only those properties where the owner lives out of state. Now, your entire list contains absentee owners. Now, sort the columns by the year the houses were purchased. Anyone who purchased more than seven years ago are the ones you send ("we buy houses") mailers to -----this is your SELLERS list. Now, take the owners who have purchased in the last two years and send them ("we sell discounted properties") mailers . This is your BUYERS list. Remember, since they live out of state but purchased in the last two years, they are most likely investors who may be actively buying.

That's it! It's a simple way to find buyers AND sellers from one list!

Good luck!