All Forum Posts by: Chris Purvis

Hello again everyone. I back to inform your that I received a call today about a house for sale. I'll tell you all about it in a new post. I have questions.

@Russ Scheider small world. How far are you from Graniteville aiken SC, that's where one of my adword leads came from. @Aristotle Kumpis and @Stephen Fryer for your input. Good thing I still have a full time job or I would be in a bad way right now.@Bill S.

Thanks @Jim Viens and @Bill S.  I just thought about wilson just before I returned to me computer. Might drive there today and see what I can find.  In the past 2 weeks bandit signs have been popping up in town. I want to differentiate myself from them though.

My marketing for buyers and sellers started online with craigslist and backpage. I post or renew with craigslist almost daily. I haven't gotten any response from backpage so I haven't posted there much. Only put out a few handwritten bandit signs as my marketing budget is limited right now. Just started the adwords campaign early last week. Got 1 lead from South Carolina and the other 2 came out of canada. Don't have the money for direct mail yet. But I do plan to take action on some more free marketing strategies. And of course I been driving for dollars from the start.

My pipeline of lead seems to have all but closed. Not getting call, bandits signs going missing, adwors campaign is only pulling leads from out of state, not locally. In a small city of 57000 people, nobody need to sell or by a house around her? Is wholesaling dieing out or what? I'm beyond annoyed

Thanks @Christina R. your are right. I like the dialogue that took place here. Thanks everyone for your input

Thanks for that @Patrick Britton that's a good way to view a situation like this

Thanks for all the input and insight. This is why I'm glad I found BP. Different points of view from different people is much appreciated. 

I do feel it would be better to let the seller know what I'm doing. In this case the seller contacted me from an online ad. My screening process, which was my google voice message to the seller when they call, was not set up correctly when he called. All I could go on was a missed and I called him back to speak with him personally. Being that I just started started my education process about wholesaling on july 24th, my knowledge and confidence was shaky at 1st. None the less I called him and began the process, because I wanted to take action regardless of knowing what I was doing or not. 

Looking back on saturday and after all the informational comments I received in this thread, I wish I had handled it differently. I guess I was more upset that I drove all that way just for the guy to call me 23 minutes past our appointment time, to tell me they changed their mind about selling. I felt they wasted my time and I really lost interest in seeing the house at that point. I have learned from this experience and from you all here. Thanks again all your input. Now I just need some deals!

@Wayne Brooks at that point I felt that they needed to know that I wanted the property but didn't need the property. Other houses out there right?

Guess I made lots of rookie mistakes. 

Thanks @Rocky V. I work a full time job during the day so by time I talked to him was at night. I do have and/or assigns in my contract, but I just felt better letting him know out the gate my position in the whole deal.