All Forum Posts by: Bobby Valcin

@Jonathan Greene thanks for the feedback

I’ve been using the Mojo Dialer for a while now. I don’t necessarily have a problem with it, however, I’m trying to cut back on some cost and I would save about 50% by switching. I’ve heard xencall is actually better with the exception of the aesthetics, but, as with most things real estate, better to see what BP has to say about it.

Your thoughts are greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Jonathan. That makes sense. What would you say are some of those better ways to target lists that person doesn't have?

@Jonathan Greene thanks for the reply. What do mean when you say “upgrade my lead spend to vetted sources”?

Also, when you say update my list, are you referring to paying for better lists? I'm currently pulling list through my MLS access.

I just hired a full-time VA that will be working 40 hours a week at a great rate (my previous VA's were more than double this rate). My plan at this time is to have him doing cold calling using some standard lists and FSBO lists with the Mojo Dialer, texting with Launch Control, and possibly some Craigslist scraping to pull some FSBO, FRBO, etc. The previous VA I hired was doing similar things for about 30 days and so far it's produced mostly cold leads (tire-kickers) and a few luke-warm leads. It is building a pipeline, which is good, but I wanted to share what I'm doing to get some feedback concerning the best use of the VA's time.

My expectation is that over time, the pipeline with grow and with good follow-up it will produce a deal within the next 3-6 months. A month and a half have gone by so far.

I recently came across a deal that I wanted to buy couldn’t but because it had a lien and the hard money lender requires 1st position. I ended up telling a cash buyer I know about it and he ended up buying the property.

I told them they didn’t need to pay me anything because I didn’t get the deal under contract myself and I thought it would be good for building a business relationship.

Part of the reason why I didn’t want to accept a fee is because one of the wholesaling podcasts I listen to frowns up it (He writes BP blogs). I’m not a fan of it either but it seems to be getting more and more popular with certain companies and Virtual Wholesalers who are tacking on 20k+ on deals they didn’t originally source.

By the way, they ended paying me a finders fee of sorts without me asking of 1k. I think I would be more comfortable with something like that since it did take a certain amount of time and effort.

I just wanted to get some other thoughts on this and see if I might be thinking about this the wrong way.

@Peter Kopchik

I’m a property manager by day and I deal with these types of things frequently. I have found that a conversation with an easily attainable deadline works 90% of the time. I give them one week, even if it would take them 5 minutes to do it and it almost always works. No need to be aggressive unless it HAS to come to that.

It’s kind of like in a school or working for a company. You start with a conversation (or two), then a warning, then a formal demand, then expulsion, lol.

I generally tell tenants that they are allowed to have small plants and patio furniture on patios and BBQ’s must be at least 5’ away from the structure. Some will still take things to far with plants or with patio furniture, but it doesn’t happen often.

@Lydia R. In a nutshell, they use your current MLS in order to blast out offers with the click of a button, with signed contracts and other things. You have to have access to the MLS though. It seems fairly robust from what I've seen so far.

I'm strongly considering "Zoom Offers Now" as a marketing option for wholesale leads in my toolbelt. In a nutshell, they help with streamlining offers on the MLS in a systematic fashion. I'm looking to see if anyone has had any experience using them and if they have generated leads and most importantly, deals. I haven't really seen anything on BP about them and not much on the web either.

I can't argue with you there, however, I think what I'm getting at is I'm trying to find some help from a company/person that has already "perfected" a marketing strategy and paying for their services. I'm trying strike a balance between "done for you" services and doing some of the work myself. At the moment, I can commit about 10 hours a week of my personal time to this business.