All Forum Posts by: Account Closed

In one way, I can see where it's 'good' to open up both sides of Minneapolis to 'all' renters. All of those Opportunity Zones in N Minneapolis would suddenly be really worth the investment if all the gangbangin scum were not in such concentrated areas. On the other hand, this is pure politics and pushing the problem/crime statistics around to make it more diffuse.

What I am most curious about, is what 'law' or whatever, that states a landlord HAS to make a vacancy known to the general public? There's no 'law' that I know of that says you have to post the rental opening to any public portal......It CAN be word-of-mouth.

What's stopping someone from forming a 'lifestyle' club or something along the lines, where as part of the membership you DO submit to background/credit ect checks... And select landlords only do the word-of-mouth thing there?

Something along these lines would really give the clowns on the council a kick to the head.

John Hyre has prolly one of the best free webinars for Opp Zones  Florida a LOT of opportunity with this.

https://www.taxreductionlawyer.com/new-opportunity-zones?r_done=1

Here you go 
http://www.minneapolismn.gov/news/WCMSP-220697

@Brad Brynteson Sorry. Just seeing you replied... I was asking about the lat/long, just because it makes it easier to load into a mobile map app, and get the GPS to guide you on the D4D route. It's nice to be able to just load a list of leads into an app, and just set alerts to on the GPS when you are close.

@James Wise BINGO!

Local RE people try to dust that under the rug.... It's got EVERYTHING to do with politics in the last 5 years. Just about all of the housing policy changes are in lockstep with dem social experiments.

Mpls just rezoned close to 85k parcels from sfh to multi fam.... and during/after the process locked in no credit checks, criminal checks..inclusionary zoning.. basically nothing can be verified. Being a sanctuary city, all of this fits the needs of the less skilled, zero credit people they are bringing in. And private investors/landlords foot the bill. Watch what happens on the coasts, relating to 'anything' housing... and watch it get regurgitated through a 'purity' test a couple of months later in any other dem controlled area. Original thinking 'right out the window, just clone/lockstep the agenda.

I've reached out to the teams behind local 'R' politicians to have it brought into more focus, the amounts local organized RE dump into the candidates that push these changes. When you belong to a trade org like NAR, but back candidates that push these overtly hostile changes on to your only customers (people that buy/invest in property) you should not have to use the realtors, or be pressured in any way to let them be involved. It's just as good as funneling money to the election campaigns of the people that come up with these predatory changes.

Maybe 5 years ago, it was not about politics.... but 'housing' is the new political tool the left uses to wrench in their agenda.

That's the direction of the future. Basically any credit driven data on consumers is 'gold'. If they can't pay their bills, how are they making the mortgage payment? 

Direct mail is still here.... and it still works. The problem with it is the 'data targeting' and messaging. Too many in RE start off just doing the cookie-cutter stuff, and mailing out to delinq tax non-homestead ect...with an 'I'll buy your house today cash' song n dance. And really? That is soooo tired. Everyone has seen the bandit signs, and mailers. It's like getting a call from an unknown number on your cell, and seeing the 'potential spam' indicator on the screen from your carrier. The game is up. That method still works for some, but it IS limited.... simply because every local reia leader has told hundreds of others to do the same.exact.thing.

Call your local county/city. Ask the inspections dept 'what will get someone kicked out their home (pain points), even on a temp basis'... find out the 'paper trail' of the process (ie, when are the letters being sent to the homeowner from the county/city saying they are in danger of being removed from the home).... And? Simply do an Open Records Request with the city/county to get the address, status of the letter being sent (ist notice, 2nd ect), the Parcel ID and street address.

For your city https://fiscalofficer.cuyahoga... would be a great place to send in a request for a GIS parcel file, that contains Parcel ID, street address, tax/sales and owner info. This should be free, if you ask. It'll generally be a file for every parcel in the county, updated monthly. With this file? You just saved $1000's in the future 'buying' the same data from a place like listsource.

Now you have a 'master' list, for Parcel ID's and associated sales/tax data. Request it yearly, for the assessor side of it (beds baths, sf, tax...) Sure 'ownership' may change.... but you have the parcel ID, to match against any other list that you may obtain, just by matching the Parcel Id's or street address to the same in the county parcel file. Easy peasy.

Now craft your message 'around' the data. What data have you been requesting from the city/county? Does the address have delinq tax? Code violations? Has the water/gas/electricity been turned off recently, or have they been sent a warning letter that the service is in danger of being turned off? Is it an Opportunity Zone, or any other type of 'affordable housing plan' parcel area? Is it multi-family, sfh ? The list of possible reasons to prospect to them goes on and on.. But you can usually find a lot of it in the county Parcel file.

Here's a data request I just received back today. It's the water shut off's for St.Paul https://youtu.be/oK6xukfQtOk ( I get these for the 7 county metro). When they turn the water off, the home is condemned level 2, and they are booted out. I'm not so 'really' concerned about getting the shutoff notice.... it's already happened, and they are removed. What I 'really' want? Is the 2nd notice that is sent. And I want to know if they had other notices (multiple 1st, 2nd notices) throughout the year (repeatedly playing catch-up on bills). I'd much rather talk to them before the home is condemned, but I need to track all of the stages that a notice is in and how many notices they are sent. Because 'after' that I load in all the other housing-related pain points I have collected.

Everything I am saying here is 'free' to do. Parcel/people/tax/sales data is free from the county if you look, data requests are free too, it's just your time you are spending.

And you know what? The data is more flexible when 'you' have it, for the ways you want to frame it. You can model it for any other type of prospecting in the future, as long as you have that solid Parcel file from the county.

Again, 'craft' your messager around the data, when you have a mailer. Simple lists like delinq tax and nonowner occupied are scraping the bottom of the barrel... we're in a housing crisis. Owners are less inclined to move, until they 'really' have to, with distressed property.... 

Transactional brokerage. They're all over the place. 

Most vendors you use will let you export a property search to csv, or .xls. You can take that and map the columns to fields in something like a free Zoho account. When you open up a 'lead' account, everything that is imported, like 'last sale' , tax status, code violations ect is just spread out in front of you, to storyline as you read the account. :) Zoho also has click dial

For any county that you are prospecting in, the county 'should' provide a complete GIS parcel data set. That usually contains tax, sales, ect. IF it isn't offered for free on their open data portal, you can do a direct request to the county. If they charge you for it, I can't see it being more than $50. For depending on the county, 100,000's of rows of data. And you will have a lot more usually than just the taxes, in most cases. I'd rather get tax data from a verified source whenever possible, and match 'that' against whatever else.