All Forum Posts by: Elliot Smith

 Rick,

What is the time put into finding the people in the "nano-lists" 

We went the absentee list because that list was something that we could start mailing to immediately. And we have seen some success with this list in our short time.  However with my wife going full time I think that doing more digging on lists will be a positive use of her time.

Thanks for your imput.

Just mail! We mail out everyweek with out fail. But then again test them! We are testing this week. We dropped 250 in mail on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday this week so we will see. We also did this because I don't want to flood the system on one day.  However I still have people call me a month after I sent them the letter so I don't think it matters. If they are motivated/interested they will call, if they aren't they won't. 

 Ryan I just tried to filter a list by age on listsource and it took the names from 4500 to 2 people... I don't think it worked.

Elliot 

 We looked at it more as a financial deal. We have 1.5 years of her income saved up. Plus each rental property has its own savings, and a separate savings that is for the tax man. 

Also we already live off of only my income so we looked at this as the opportunity cost was huge compared to what she was making. 

Also our only debt is 3 houses, we don't have cable, we own our cars, and we save alot.

Hey all I haven't posted in a few week but I wanted to let you know how were doing. In the last ten day's my wife and I have closed 2 wholesale deals. This brings our total upto 5 since our first one closed early April! 

The money has been nice (even though we don't spend it) but the 2 best things that have come from this is. I get to run a business with my wife, while it's hard at times it overall has been awesome. And I have met some amazing people and that is worth more to me than any check.

My wife and I did hit our goal of having 1.5 years worth of her income saved up so she will be quiting her job next week to go into full time marketing/building! 

Thanks for all the great support along the way!

Thanks for having this meeting! I would love to do this again. I feel like I got alot of great information and met so many great people!

Thanks 

Where is the Vancouver meet up! 

 Nice I just bought a bunch of those from costco today! Are you running through a printer? We are doing a split test this week with hand written font that my wife did put together. So we will see. 

 This sounds awesome Jay. Michael has been great for us to work with. I also call bandit signs and CL ads and I rarely get calls back. I don't understand why they even waste their time and money. 

Hope your enjoying this beautiful Portland weather. 

Well the results are in for the week. I got one lead from the post cards. However the week has been a good one since we sent out 180 letters on Sunday. We got 14 hits so far. We made 3 offers. I did get a property under contract up in Seattle area and I am working with a BP member on that one, so we will see how it pans out. All in all a good week!