All Forum Posts by: Donovan R.

Has anyone ever subject to'd a habitat for humanity house? I have a seller that wants to sub2 her house but I'm having a hard time getting my auth. to release information in to her lender.

I'm a little confused about the whole thing. Since the house was built for free or at a discount I wasn't sure if I'd run into any problems.

I'm sure the quality of the house isn't great but it needs little work. The note is $211 with 5 years left and will Sec-8 for $650 all day long.

Any insight would be great, Thanks.

Know your area! A quick tool that might help - Rentometer.com Don't count on it exclusively but it will give you a quick snapshot.

I used to do something like this but I would actually leave it in a Fed-ex envelope at the front door. You can get the envelopes for free at drop off boxes or any store that ships fed ex.
Guaranteed to be opened as long as the house isn't vacant!

You hit the lottery there. I'd be interested in hearing the numbers of the deal. What was your target audience for that mailer?

Yea, especially when you're trying to sell yellow letters.

I sincerely hope I never run into a problem with putting out bandits, I don't know what I would do. I Put out 40 signs 9/30 and have 21 leads so far. I would be surprised if I don't get 40+ calls from those 40 signs. Made a couple quick verbal offers and looks like I'm going to go and look at two of them.

I try not to press my luck by (usually)only doing 25 at a time and spreading them out as much as possible. I probably drove 100 miles putting those 40 out.

I use google voice +
Voice Connect

Never had a problem with Google voice either. I have been using it since it first started. It Maybe your current phone provider.

I'm making a switch from letters to 4x6 postcards. Letters just cost too much.

Check out the pricing for postcards - http://www.overnightprints.com/postcards

This is just for the print, you can find a local direct mail house to mail them for about .27 a piece.

Letters for me =
.11 cents envelope
.10 Letters
.44 Stamp
= .65 (aprox) per letter
+a lot of time stuffing and stamping them.

Over 2,500 mailers that's

$800 for postcards
$1625 for letters

I would bet you would get a better response rate mailing postcards twice then mailing a letter once. And save a lot of time!

I'm going to track my response rate, I'll keep you posted.

I agree with Excel and Google.

However this is free and well organized -
http://www.flippingjunkie.com/realestateanalysis

I still use my spreadsheets though.

building a website at godaddy.com is easier than you might think. $12bucks for a domain and free hosting.