All Forum Posts by: John Lyszczyk

Call Security Mortgage Group. They are loan brokers and can get a loan on virtually any mobile home park as long as the deal is $750,000 or more. Under that you're stuck with either seller financing or small-town local banks.

Postcards are so cheap from fulfillment services like click2mail.com, I have no idea why anyone would ever want to physically fulfill postcards. But if you must, you would want to print on them. Remember to get postcard stamps, they are cheaper.

if you truly want to automate, you would probably have to use lob.com API to link up with your CRM.

also I second the person who said you have to send a lot more postcards to get a deal. However, you can send out yellow letters and get more calls, but you won't necessarily get more deals. Yellow letters get a higher response rate but it's a lot of Tire kickers beat. People who call postcards are usually more serious.

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I was shopping on click2mail.com and I will definitely try their services in the future. I have a lot of time on my hands lol no money to pay $1,000-$1,600 for mailing services. I'm open to looking at any cheaper options. Once I start generating income from deals I'll see if a mailing service makes sense. But I'm thinking I could get my cousin to apply labels and mail them for a fraction of the cost of using an online mailing service. Not ruling any options out as I am in the "experimental" phase right now. Thank you for the tips! 

Insted of fooling with labels, I'd suggest printing right on the postcard. Most modern printers will accept the size and stock. Just create a template in word the same size as your postcard and insert some merge fields.

You'll still have to apply your postage though

There are tons of services out there that would do this for you, but of course it costs a little more. Well worth the time saved. Have you figured out how much your time is worth so you know if you're actually saving money?

@John Lyszczyk

This isn’t answering your question, I’ll leave that to others. I just want to throw this out to you.

500 postcards isn’t even a drop in the bucket. Most people effectively using postcards send them by the thousands. My minimum for postcards used to be 2500 per week.

You are FAR better off sending a yellow letter or some other iteration of a letter if your list is 500 or less. This will yield far better results when dealing in these small numbers.

Not trying to dissuade you. Just want to give you a different perspective. I guess if you are dead set on sending small amounts of postcards, my advice would be don’t do the whole we pay cash spiel. Convince them to go to your website and then try to convert them there on your website.

My best performing postcard pissed off about 90% of the people who get them. Lots of nasty calls and voicemails. I used to send the recordings to my buddies for a good laugh. Seriously though, that card converted like to other. Another reason not to do the traditional “we buy houses” card

@John Lyszczyk Makes sense, well I'll keep following if anyone has some suggestions or you end up standardizing your process or automating it. Good Luck!

@John Lyszczyk what exactly are you mailing if you don't mind me asking. I'm looking into doing this but have not started. I was hoping to "automate" it by finding something online that would send them out automatically once I create them online. Any info would be appreciated. 

What properties are you looking into?"

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