All Forum Posts by: Aaron Rowzee

If I may weigh in on this topic as both and "IT guy" and a real estate investor. If you were to dumb it down to one single rudimentary difference between "cheap" solutions vs Lead Propeller and Investor Carrot type sites its this: buy it yourself, pick it yourself, build it yourself, maintenance itself, back it up yourself, restore it yourself, patch it yourself, replace plugins that are no longer compatible yourself, become an expert in 3-5 different types of technology that all are "supposed" to work together yourself AND let someone else more effectively do it for you for very little "extra" money than what it would actually cost you.

I have built countless websites on Wordpress, countless plugins, recovered from viruses, done some Joomla/WIX, HTML, etc sites and I can tell you: IT SUCKS. You CANNOT have a well performing site on a $3/mo hosting. The Wordpress sites are excruciatingly slow once you add your marketing and tracking plugins. And if you are not a full time real estate investors and/or web designer why waste all of your time? You'll spend 20 hours a month maintaining a well built site, at least.

I purchased a LeadPropeller site a few months back during a great sale Danny was having and still haven't done much beyond configuring the basics due to not having a lot of time (But I'm going to get it all finished soon!!). Take my advice and try one of the paid solutions for a year. It takes around 6 months for you to get noticeable traffic anyway so commit the money as "marketing funds" and if it doesn't work, oh well. But you'll be out a lot less than having wasted so much time trying to learn and build and maintain a Wordpress site and paying for decent hosting and plugins. And you should have a marketing budget, btw. I don't see how anyone survives in this game without spending at least a little money each money sourcing deals. 

For me personally, the paid vs diy website argument is asinine.

Awesome, guys! My BIL has really wanted to start doing the same but usually can't make any outside meetings. He's an operator at the downtown location. Can you provide info for the time and location?

Jessican Rayburn at Capital Title on Dowlen, HANDS DOWN. 

 What about the lead/project/portfolio management app y'all had in the past? The software alone would do it for me. 

 (Mind blown gif here)

How about a step up. What about a group insurance rate on rental properties for all pro members????

Terrible, stay away from here its no good. Actually its a great area and housing that was beginning to stagnate is now on the rise due to a lack of inventory. Port Arthur and the east Side of Beaumont is a warzone, Orange is dying on the vine and has seen a huge rise in drug use, but outside of that its a good area. 

The main problem we're facing is too many investors, not enough deals because not enough inventory. I think wholesalers with massive budgets for campaigns would do well, but the deals have mostly dried up in the area if you are investing according to BP rules. We have capital here, we have hungry investors, but no quality wholesalers.

 I see what you did there...and it was quite amusing.

Thanks guys for the info!

@Kevin Roberts, I'd love to follow along with your Dickinson project. Sounds like its going to have some hurdles.

Good evening, BP. I've been receiving several good leads from wholesalers in the Houston area that are specific to the little town of Dickinson. I grew up in Katy and have lived in Pearland, Conroe, Almeda Genoa area but all of that was over 15 years ago. League City was all the rage and Dickinson had never been heard of. 

Has any of that changed? Has the populous finally reached down south far enough to make a small town like this worth investing in? If so, what kind of returns are to be had?

I'll be inputting leads manually from multiple sources, and yes they'll be either wholesale or flip leads.