All Forum Posts by: Chris Frydenlund

@Adam Chudy: now a year later. How would you say the MF market is? I'm a novice and want to look for MF deals. Wholesale some and invest in some. What have you been doing the past year?

I've been doing a bit of direct mail for SFR but without much luck. I was thinking it's a pretty saturated market since most people probably starts with SFR when they first start getting into REI.

I only know basic php from building Wordpress sites.

Thanks @Nicholas TenBrink. 

Those of you who use IFTTT (@Roger Rustad, @Bobby R., @Mike Anderson): I can't make it spit out emails, instead it just sends me the URL of the ad, its title and content.

Does anyone use email scrapers for craigslist?

I've found a few, but they all cost a lot of money and I wonder how great they actually work.

I'd like to automatically scrape emails from sellers on Craigslist and automatically send them an email. In other words automate the entire process from scraping to automated email campaigns. 

I saw a YouTube video by Joe Crump, who explained what it's all about. But I guess I have to buy his product/service to learn how it works.

Anyone who has positive experience using listsource (or other sources) for multifamily in Texas?

When I choose detailed property types -> multifamily 10 units plus or multifamily 10 units less, then nothing comes up.

Is listsource not good for multifamily in Texas?

@Elizabeth Colegrove isn't it difficult to find a good deal when moving from place to place not knowing the local market? And then have to find that 'perfect' deal within a short time frame?

@Sam LLoyd you got some good points there. My wife and I have talked about finding a place, and hire professionals to do most of the job, since that's how we will do it in the future anyway. I'm not some crazy handyman. So I guess to avoid all the mess we'd need to get as much done before we move in.

@Fred Heller I know my wife won't let us move into anything crazy. We're hoping to find the needle in a haystack. One with writing on walls, full of trash, broken furniture, nasty wall paper, old kitchen and bathrooms, etc. Not something that requires new walls, foundational work, plumbing or electrics. If it needs anything that usually requires a professsional I will take the cut in profit and hire them. I hope that we all define a cosmetic fixer upper the same? Maybe I'm underestimating the work of cosmetic work?

In which condition were the homes your clients bought? I have 24/7 to work on it while my wife works. Did they all have to use spear time and not full time? I wonder if that will make a big difference. It could be interesting to know more details as you have 3 great cases.