All Forum Posts by: Eric Stafford

Quote from @Eliott Elias:

Go with a entrepreneurial brokerage and be surrounded by other investors

Finding that seems to be the challenge of late. I've only seen that commentary here and almost exclusively in this thread!

Quote from @Jon Carag:

subgroup of investor-focused agents

Jon, how did you end up finding such a group?  I find it wild that there's so many people in this space you'd think you'd easily be able to find what you're looking for in size or even in small groups. You endlessly find people that are always looking unless you have a resource like BP as a resource to connect them.

Quote from @Jeremy Watson:

Hi Eric. 

REAL does Commercial, yes. I can put you in touch with who you need to chat with if you’d lIke. 

 That would be greatly appreciated. Messaging you directly w/ contact info.

Quote from @Jeremy Watson:

I'm an Associate Broker with REAL Broker LLC and we offer fantastic splits (85/15), Stock Options, Training, Mentorship and a fantastic network. Happy to help if you have any questions.

Does REAL do commercial or have a division that is commercial? I've looked at eXp's Commercial but dont need their $250/mo technology fee as I work with a developer that has Reonomy and I've built my own CRM and leads database.

Quote from @Jp Kilduff:

Quote from @Eric Stafford:

Quote from @Jp Kilduff:

Skip tracing LLCs is a double skip process. You first have to identify the registered agent/owner and then skip trace that person. There are skip tracing companies that can do that for you without charging you extra, have flexible pricing options, and excellent customer service. Let me know if you'd like a referral code or have more questions.

Do you have an API to pull data straight into a CRM in bulk or ad hoc?

 Working on that for Q4, stay tuned! What CRM specifically?

Thinking Pipedrive right now but not confirmed they have the API for skip tracing I'm referring to. If I knew a CRM that had it, that would likely determine the provider since I'm still in the hunt.

Quote from @Jp Kilduff:

Skip tracing LLCs is a double skip process. You first have to identify the registered agent/owner and then skip trace that person. There are skip tracing companies that can do that for you without charging you extra, have flexible pricing options, and excellent customer service. Let me know if you'd like a referral code or have more questions.

Do you have an API to pull data straight into a CRM in bulk or ad hoc?

@Peter Cogliano

Have you looked into getting the agents/officers off of OpenCorporates? I believe they also have an API so as to not have to look them up one at at time via the site.  We have similar issues in the commercial space.

Following as I'm also looking for CRM's to look into. Does anyone know a CRM that allows you to use API to automate collecting skip tracing data?

@Brendan Ashworth

I am trying to avoid spending lots of time on things that may or may not be useful. I started at downloading all Mass land records and wish I could get the same for NH and RI. From there, I'm trying to see what data I could gather to supplement the addresses that aren't residential since we target commercial.

I've seen Python referenced in many industries and more and more now as I dive into data in real estate. Using API's, GIS, webs scraping, and others is both interesting and challenging. I can see how people can get lost using it but I've already seen huge benefits of what's available with effort vs. only taking what's fed to you from Costar, etc.

Thanks for adding your piece of the stories you can tell with data that's available. Now I need to figure out if Python is also in my future.

Eric

@Brendan Ashworth, I'm looking at similar type projects I can do on my own to help with different areas of interest. Can you comment on why Boston and how you sourced the data and/or tools you used?

Thanks!