All Forum Posts by: Ehab Tadrous

@Russell Brazil  -  I have sent him a request, Thank you for the suggestion. 

@Stacy Jordan - Sent you a message

Hi @Pauline Charlton.  I'm currently doing about 8-10 deals per week in my Atlanta office.  Doing about 2-3 per week in Jacksonville and another 2-3 per month in about 5 other locations across the US.

Here is what I have found.  The area I have the most presence in is where I do the most deals and the most consistent amount of deals.  Meaning in Atlanta and Jacksonville I have my own team of people doing everything.  In the other areas I really don't have the strength of my own people and the ones that I do work with do not work for me exclusively.

So having local market presence with the right people in my opinion the number one thing you need if you are looking to go into a new market and actually develop an ongoing model there not just some random deals here and there.

Hope that helps... 

@Ned Carey VOTE VOTE VOTE!!  (I wish I could give you 5 more votes for that saying alone...  I'm definitely gonna use it!!  The first  two times I'll give you credit... Then NO MORE!!😜 JK)

@Dominique Littleton Ned is sooo on point with that saying. (That's one credit)  if your market is over priced in one area, it will be soft in another.  The secret is to NOT be a "one trick pony."  

My personal business model is, "professional problem solver." (Trademark pending.. You stay away Ned!! 😜)  

What that means is, as a PPS, you job is to find people with a problem and solve it for them.  

Can you get a list of bankruptcies in your area, how about divorces or probates?

Tax delinquent properties are often a symptom of a larger problem.

We just did over 150 deals in 2015 with a tax lien fund that had no idea of what to do with properties they actually got back.  (They were the lien holder and were looking to get their profit when they did the tax deed foreclosure.  They expected to have others outbid them and collect their money.  About 85% of the time, their strategy worked.  However, on the "crap" ones nobody bid on, they had no exit strategy.

We stepped in and became their exclusive "crap disposer."  (Hmm does that make my new biz model, "investor septic tank?" trademark pending, so stay away Ned!!)

Bottom line, see what the market gives you and go for it.  Think outside of the box and look for problems to solve, then go out there and do it.

P.S. Ned, all those pops were just in good fund, please don't moderate me!! 😇

P.S.S.  Ned, congrats on becoming a moderator.  Your quality posts and respect in this community are what got u there. 

Congrats!!

I searched for remote investing so I will drink up some of that information too.