All Forum Posts by: Jonathan Greene

@Jim Kelly - you will love Call Ruby. Game changer for what you are looking for. Highly professional and friendly and the delivery time to you from call to message is like one second.

@Account Closed - where in MA are you looking? I have a few colleagues who I trust there that I could refer you to. One of my old college friends also runs a real estate auction house in MA that turns out some awesome deals. They could be of interest to you. PM me and I will send you the info.

@Cynthia Brooks - I have two preferred agents in Brooklyn. PM me and I can connect you.

@Katherine S. - definitely track down the owner, this is crazy. If you PM me, I am happy to track down some info for you if you know the owner's address on tax records. I have a few sources that usually come up with something.

@Yoni Rozenstein - your best bet for marketing this property with past structural issues is to get a Structural Engineer to issue a full report and include that in the marketing. The majority of non-investor buyers will hear structural issues and run (even if they were fixed) so if you can have a documented report by a licensed professional as part of the package, it shows you are being transparent and that you have addressed all of the issues to make the house whole again.

@Jason H. - many brokerages prohibit cross-partnerships at Open Houses so your best bet is to do the research to find the listing agents that you want to emulate the most - from the amount of signs in the ground to their online presence and marketing - and ask to meet with them. Maybe they are looking to grow their team and would take the help. Most high-end listing agents at larger brokerages can find any number of people within their company to do this with so keep that in mind as well.

@Jim Kelly - I'm not sure exactly what you are looking for, but a catch-all who does a great job on the phone is www.callruby.com. I have used them before and they will follow your script you give them. They will also call you to tell you that you have a call and if you don't pick, they will ask your questions, take a message and send to your email and phone.

@Jason K. - in this part of NJ, it depends on the agent, the proximity of time as a known property off-market to on-market, and how involved the bank is in the process. The banks do want to maximize their profits, but they also want to move the REO property. Our area is inundated with investors and "investors" who are driving the prices up of bad properties and then they get them under contract and flop the deal because they don't know what they are doing. We have an off-market lead funnel we use to identify deals before they hit the market, but your best bet in our area for on-market deals is NOT day one on the MLS, it's having a hot sheet set up by your agent that tracks all REO/short sale deals that are back on the market. In those cases, they don't want to set up a whole new process like in the beginning, they want to put the deal right back on. Get in touch if I can help.

@Cecilia Hake - buyer agency agreements are for peace of mind for the real estate agent. They are generally unenforceable against you or not worth the legal trouble to pursue. The agent could use it against a new agent to try to get a referral however.

The real question is how hard do you think a regular agent is going to work for you if you aren't committed to them. Investors like to see a lot of properties and if an agent shows you 11 properties one day and then you call the listing agent on a property the next day, you might understand why he would be aggravated.

Personally, we don't have our clients sign buyer agency agreements ever because I feel like if I do my job as an agent, the clients will stick with me because I have a unique value proposition that other agents don't.

@Mo Gold - send me a PM and I will connect you.