All Forum Posts by: Jairo Garcia

@Rob Toste sounds like you're well on your way! I noted you're in the bay area, but if you come across any deals in southern california feel free to reach out to me! (posting contact info on here is prohibited so I'll pm you my email)

Welcome @Bikran Sandhu! I'm also a CPA working in the OC (Newport Beach). Depending how far you want to travel, I attend a meet in Temecula and Riverside. I'm right down the street from you so if you ever want to meet up for coffee/lunch feel free to reach out! Best of luck!

I have a BS in Business (attended 2 years at UC San Diego and 2 years at UC Riverside), have my CPA license and am looking to get my real estate license. My education and background have helped immensely in researching and analyzing deals!

Reposting

I'm new to REI and experiencing what you described above. I started with real estate agents and focused on Riverside county. I put in multiple offers and soon realized bidding on fix & flips is like a feeding frenzy! I found myslef in a bidding war with 20+ investors with the asking price increasing anywhere from 25% - 50%! With margins so compressed I'm leaning towards a direct marketing strategy as a more viable strategy for deal flow.

What tips would you have for someone starting from scrath in direct marketing? Where do you get your lists from? How did you develop your script?

@Aaron Mazzrillo@Mike Flora actually meant to post this to another thread specific to direct mail where you both were participating. I'll repost there.

@Mike Flora @Aaron Mazzrillo I'm new to REI and experiencing what you described above. I started with real estate agents and focused on Riverside county. I put in multiple offers and soon realized bidding on fix & flips is like a feeding frenzy! I found myslef in a bidding war with 20+ investors with the asking price increasing anywhere from 25% - 50%! With margins so compressed I'm leaning towards a direct marketing strategy as a more viable strategy for deal flow.

What tips would you have for someone starting from scrath in direct marketing? Where do you get your lists from? How did you develop your script?

@Robin Boyer The meetup will be on Saturday June 3 @ Ryan Brothers Coffee in tememcula @ 9AM. hope you can make it!

@Robin Boyer very admirable that you're doing this in your grandfathers honor.

Let me know when your meetup is as I'd like to attend, with kids and investing my weekends fill up quick so I'd like to put a place holder in before my wife books my time lol.

Glad to see some IE folks on here! Not sure if you guys are aware but there is a pretty good meetup that meets in temecula the first saturday of every month. I've been to a few meetings and made some good connections.

@Salvatore Lentini

Hi Sal, I wanted to follow-up onyour post above. What was your experience with NWA? I am scheduled to meet with them today, however, after reading some of the reviews on here I am looking to cancel that meeting. It seems like they're strategy is to focus on new investors so I'd love to get the perspective of an experienced investor. Thanks!