All Forum Posts by: Chuck Sumner

Hi there,

Any gurus with ITTB i could really use some help. 

So we have a month limit of 5k leads we can pull from ITTB.  We want to start pulling 5k a month from a specific search. How do you omit a previously downloaded list from your results?

If im not totally clear, lets say you pull a high equity list with specific search criteria and it returns 15k results. I can export the first 5k just fine. How do I get the next 5k results next month?

Appreciate the help.

Thanks,

Chuck

We just signed up with REI Rail and ran our first campaign. I agree with the poster way above, its very buggy, very particular, and the first few days I was pissed because if im paying several hundred just to get access to a product it better damn well work flawlessly and it did not. Support on the app is **** however if you jump on facebook the actual owners are very quick to respond inside the facebook community and get your issue resolved.

The amount of frustration I had the first day was pretty incredible. I was trying to run a test campaign to make sure I had all the bugs worked out and every thing was working as it should and half the time I couldnt get it to run, I had to delete and redo my test campaign several times, just an overall huge pain and I consider myself pretty tech savvy. I had even watched all their videos before going inside the program.

After running a campaign here is what ive found:

Of a list of 2650 leads, only 670 were actually eligible to have RVM's dropped. They arent able to drop to land lines and I wasnt aware of that, its not advertised anywhere to my knowledge. Once your in the system it explains that to you. You dont pay for leads that arent dropped though. They also appear unable to drop to ATT phones as my partner and his wife only showed 4 missed calls and a blank voicemail. We also heard from others when they called in this was the case.

They have a sort of drop scheduler built in where you schedule how many total drops you want done over a period of time each day. It doesnt appear to work well. It overshot our max by about 100. The second day I just let it run to the end of our list so I dont have any further experience yet.

They advertise 3 cents per drop but thats only if you buy 10,000 at a time, otherwise their lowest purchase of 500 drops is 10 cents per drop.

Deep trace really doesnt work very well, sometimes it does, other times it shows me data on someone who is not even who I am calling.

As far as results, we sent out around 250 the first day and got 10 call backs with 1 lead. The next day we sent out the rest of the 679 and got a ton of call backs and a couple leads. So that seemed positive.  

One thing we really like is how it pulls up the property of the person calling, that is awesome and the main reason we subscribed.

We'll continue to use it for now but knowing what I know I probably wouldnt recommend it to anyone else at this time. They definitely shouldnt be charging an onboarding fee as there is literally no onboarding, ive had zero contact from anyone and received no support when I needed it. Thats just a cash grab plain and simple.

Anyway hope that helps.

Oh man bad timing for me I'm headed to Mexico this weekend for a week. When you move though definitely keep me in mind.

Hi guys and gals, long time lurker, first discussion thread.

So I am looking for some advice on our situation.  We selling our current house living in my wife's parents house.  They bought another house and let us live in the old house while we made the last few upgrades to our house.

They are agreeing to sell us the house for $195k. It appraised at 260k as it sits but does need the septic replaced and is in bad need of an update inside. We plan on putting approx. 55k into the rehab (including septic) and expect an ARV of 290K based on comps in the area.

Ive been looking at how I can maximize the return on this.  Here's my thoughts:

We dont buy the house yet, instead we rent it from them and pay the current mortgage. We then use the equity from our last sale to rehab this house.  We have a real estate attorney draft up something to the effect that upon sale of the home any money collected from the sale over 195k goes to us. Does that make sense?  This would appear to save us closing costs on the buy of the new house and capital gains tax when it sells. What am I missing, is there a better way? I appreciate the help.

Chuck 

Im new here however I did this a few years back. I left my then company and took what was supposed to be a temp contracting position.  Basically the company wanted to try me out and so they hired me through local contracting agency which paid me hourly.  I didnt have any benefits but it resulted in a salary increase of 40k/year.  After a year the company wanted to hire me permanently however their offer was literally 2% over what my previous pay was.  I said thanks i'll just remain a contractor, which they had no problem with, and I began looking for a new job.  My old boss contacted me and wanted me back.  I ended up going back again as a contract employee with a higher position and secured another 10k raise with the new contracting agency.  Ive been here 3 years. Health insurance is carried by my wife which makes things much easier.  Im also at the lowest rate for my position and I think I'll end up getting another 20-25/hr here pretty quick.  The downside is that I am a contractor and they get rid of us first when budgets get squeezed which can be stressful.  

Basically the gist is you need to move companies every two years, or move to higher and higher positions.  Companies dont care about employee retention and will gladly let you go and then hire you back at 25% pay a year or two later.  Its just how it is.