All Forum Posts by: Amanda Fox

Hi Everyone! I just started a blog titled "Adventure in Making a Better LIfe" Follow us in our crazy decision as we go cold turkey, quit our jobs and move to Colorado to start investing in real estate full time. I will detail everything we do and how well it worked, things that I'm learning/reading, etc. It should be a wild ride!!

Super good to know, Dev Horn, thank you. We've got some decisions to make!

Rick Harmon LOL!!! So funny! Michael Quarles does COI stand for conflict of interest? My hubs is not planning to get his license when we move to CO next month, I forgot to mention. EVERYONE, what are your thoughts about driving around to obtain addresses vs. buying an absentee owner or probate list? In your opinion, would the vacant/distressed home addresses obtained by driving be a better target market than the list markets? Such a great discussion, BTW!!! Helpful to many outside of myself!!!

Aaron Mazzrillo, thanks for the more detailed information! Its really making me think that we need to not be so narrow in our business plan and expand beyond fix and flip (my background is in architecture and construction management, btw, hence the bent toward fix and flip. And we have approximately 1 mil dollars in OPM to invest which although that is a lot of capital it won't last us indefinitely and we intend to grow our own capital and reinvest slowly in buy and hold. ANYWAY, I write all this mainly for advice from ANYONE about this business plan. My hubs, btw is a real estate broker to toss into the mix) K, back from the tangent. I am realizing that maybe we need to let the opportunities speak to us about what to do with them instead narrowly always doing fix and flip. Thank you for the window into your world that is helping me realize this!!!!

Dev Horn SUPER helpful to hear about a real world example. I keep trying to put myself in the place of someone receiving a letter, but this was really helpful. And it answers my issue perfectly of wanting to convey a professional image in a personal way, maybe mainly because our business is, IMO, a good blend of both. Michael Quarles, I thought you were going to skewer me when I said I wasn't going to use yellow letters :). Thank you for your really good advice about just sending something regularly that sets you apart and gets your mail opened and don't get so bogged down in the details, just get it done!!!

Aaron Mazzrillo, would you mind telling me roughly how many you send and how many actual deals you close in a year?? Do you also do bandit signs? Thank you!!

Wow, thank you Dev Horn, that was super helpful!! I'm starting to rethink some things, thanks to your comments. For one, I want to be an honest business with integrity down to the details and I'm questioning this whole letter idea that seems like its handwritten but it really isn't. It may seem small, but I think I may go small letter typed with our business name/logo and postcards with our business name/logo. Thank you!

Thanks Taylor for the encouragement!!! Have you moved into full time investing?? What other marketing strategies do you implement? I'm going to watch Jerry's podcast now, can't wait!! I grew up close to you, btw, in West Lafayette! Good Luck to you!

Super helpful, Jerry Puckett. I'm going to listen to the podcast in the morning!! Nothing like having 2 small kids, moving out of state and leaving a lucrative job with no new job prospects to get you motivated. :)

Thanks, Jerry Puckett, so encouraging!! Do you use different types of mailers in your campaign??