All Forum Posts by: Jonathan Greene

If they have nowhere to go or don't know how to find a next place, and no relatives who are helping them, you will be the only person that goes the extra step to help (even with advice) which means you will get the sale at a better price and help someone.

Zillow applications aren't accurate or fully vetted, so I wouldn't bother with them. If you are listing it yourself as a landlord, a lot of landlords don't want to show it a lot (lazy) so they get few applications. Rental Open Houses don't work, but you can create a modified Open House by creating response texts that go over the requirements and then put all showings within a two hour block so you don't have to go so many times. If you aren't getting a lot of showings and it's on the portals, it could just be the holidays. If it doesn't pick up by mid-January, you are priced too high.

You have WAY too many photos and they are almost all bad angles and not helpful. You don't need so many photos of blank bedrooms as you can't even tell which is which. Most of the photos are hard to tell where it is and they are all crooked or chopped off. There is a splotch on the floor in one and what looks like a missing cabinet which is probably not helping.

That is the trend. I've been running no-pitch meetups since the pandemic where we started online and it takes a lot of vetting and not over-promoting. We don't allow hard money lenders, only the sponsors (real estate attorney, title company, and my lender) and they don't pitch either. There are no speakers or presentations allowed, just networking. I go around and try to connect people based on what they like and in January we are starting a 30-minute speed networking where two people sit across from different people for 10 sets of 3 minutes with topics.

There is another good one near me too where they do presentations and also no-pitch. They do exist.

All of my landlords we have using Azibo and they all seem to like it and haven't had complaints in over two years from them or from the tenants.

By hosting open houses? No

Doing cold calls? No

Joining meetings? YES, but don't push your agent business. Be interested, not interesting and ask questions. What do investors like to talk about more than anything? Themselves.

How do I find the investors to line up with my deals?) You do it by building relationships over time and being an asset to investors. They all know 100 realtors and get dumb calls from them every day. What makes you different? Can you find off-market opportunities for them? 

Yes, you should be concerned, but you aren't looking in the right place. Call the town and ask what they have on the town card for bedrooms and bathrooms. Your main concern should be whether these bedrooms and bathrooms on the lower level are legal and have the proper egress require for fire code and livability. Realtors know nothing most of the time and will sell you anything with unpermitted stuff. Make sure you do an OPRA request to check for open permits and confirm with the town whether the 2/1 below is legal and permitted.

A great way to get started is to go to local real estate investor meetups and meet other investors. You have a skillset that could be extremely useful for quick fixes and landlord issues and from there you can bridge relationships and partnerships to enhance your knowledge of real estate investing and couple your skills.

Read Main Street Millionaire by Codie Sanchez. It just came out this month and will hit every question you have about that in my opinion.

Look up Michael Drew (Real Estate Done 4 U). He is based in Indianapolis and works with a ton of OOS investors. At worst, he is a great resource for Indianapolis. Following the team at DealMachine would help also because they are based in Indianapolis.