My Journey to take over Joplin, Missouri

As some of you might remember I took a vacation with my family back to Missouri where my fathers side of the family is from to visit. I had intentions of buying at least 1 house while I was there. 

We had a great week there in Joplin and I loved it there. My wife and I had been there years before and now the kids were able to see it, they actually fell in love with it as well. Joplin is great in that it's a smaller town/city but it's still got some bigger city attributes to it. There is a lot of great history with Joplin and the surrounding area and that is one of the things that really attracted myself and my kids to be interested in possibly moving there soon. 

Even though we had a great week I was unable to find the time to actually purchase a house while I was there so I've decided to go and make it a mission to take over Joplin and pick up as many houses as I possibly can.

This blog might also be a little premature but I figure I can start tracking my progress so that everyone can watch and follow along with me.

I was able to make sure I've got a solid team built there in Joplin which is important. I've got my uncle who is a great handyman and actually very responsible and trustworthy to handle little things that I might need, I don't plan on buying any houses that need major repair. I'd consider new cabinets/countertops, carpet & paint, little stuff like that. Anything outside of minor updating or paint/carpet I'll have to make sure I'm getting a smoking deal.

I've got a great Realtor who I plan on using a lot. It's always been my downfall to fax/email contracts to a seller and then expect them to send them back signed. It's not like I have any scam type of contracts, they merely say if you're selling then I'm buying but it always seem that when a seller has time to sit there and read and then re-read and then consult their friends who obviously don't know squat! they always back out. So my Realtor will have my contracts readily available and will fill them out for me as I've instructed him to and then I'll have him meet with the sellers who I feel then will feel more comfortable moving forward if they're meeting with a licensed professional.

I've got a title company on board, they were not really keen on Sub2's at first but then I realized I'll be doing mostly table top closings with the sellers anyways all I'll really need them to do is searches and title policies anyways, so we ended up being just fine and ultimately I kinda like them there at the title place.

I also got a referral to a insurance guy who was very knowledgeable and knew exactly what I was talking about and actually gave me some tips that made sense. I was referred to him by who I would call the MikeOH of Joplin, an older straight shooter type of guy who has over 100 rentals there in Joplin and also brokers mortgages. I was able to meet with him while I was up there and we sat for almost 3 hours as he told my kids and I history stories about the Joplin area. That guy was cool!!  

So for now I'd like to lay out my plan to you so that you'll know exactly what I'll be doing as you follow my progress. As mentioned before this all might be a little premature as my site isn't completed as of yet and I don't plan on going full force until it does b/c all of those 500 bandit signs have my number/site on them so obviously I'll have to wait a few weeks until the site is done.

Plan will be a constant ad in the local Joplin Globe paper for at least 12 weeks

50 bandit signs every week starting at Thursday night. Will change to Friday if the majority of them are getting torn down. I'm not to worried about sign enforcement. 

CL and Backpage ads, I'm not counting on these to much simply b/c there is very little activity in the Joplin part of these sites, I'm not sure if it's lack of internet or lack of people knowing about CL and Backpage.

So I think my 2 main focuses will be the local paper and bandit signs.

I'll keep updating this as I progress.