All Forum Posts by: Siobhan Kelly-Roberts

@Brian Lusk if you are manually skip tracing, using BellesLink we do a property search then do a Person search on one of the owners. If the owners appear to be husband and wife, we only skip trace one because as @Barry Pekin mentioned, they usually have the same current address. If the owners have different last names we'll usually do a person search on both.

If you like to use batch search for skip tracing you'll need to separate the two owners and search each of them individually. A BellesLink batch search is only 25¢ so cost isn't an issue. The benefit is you'll get a current phone number for each owner.

Only $.25 cents?! That's over twice what I pay for my skip tracing, lol. And I get around 90% accuracy.

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Originally posted by @Braden C.:

@Dakota Mathis I would suggest skip tracing the owners and calling them before sending a letter. That's what we do and have a lot of success. The conversation is basically "hi, I was driving by your property on XX street and noticed it might be vacant. I am looking for a house in that area and wanted to see if it's something you would be interested in selling." I always say "might" be vacant, some people just don't take care of their properties and will get offended.

If I can't find a good working phone number or get someone to take my calls, then I'll start sending letters. Good luck!

Who do you use for skip tracing? Or do you just use free methods?

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Personally I like RVM a lot. I've been using Slybroadcast and I really like it. Happy to give you some more insight on what's worked for me regarding RVM - you have me on IG so just hit me up if you want to know my systems.

Personally I haven't done text blasting. I know people who have gotten good results from it, but there's a lot of new stuff coming out about legality issues with cold texting, and it sketches me out.

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Originally posted by @Kyle Root:

Hey guys! Im curious the way you guys contact home owners that live out of state. I travel 24/7 but invest in Northern Michigan and the Fox Valley Area in Wisconsin but I’m mostly traveling outside of those areas. Anyways, I have several listings I’d like to contact the owner directly as I’m interested in working out an owner financiers deal.

Thanks in advance!

Use a quality skip tracing company and get phone numbers that way. Happy to provide some recommendations.

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Well, if you're driving for dollars and compiling the leads yourself, then you've already built your own criteria of what you consider a "good lead." If it didn't seem like a potentially distressed property, you probably wouldn't have put it on your list, right? Not sure why you'd need to scrub it. Just skip the whole list and try your luck calling up every property on it. Sure you might come across properties that have been sold recently or something, but going through every single property individually to look up that information seems like a colossal waste of time, instead of just paying $.10 cents for skip tracing. That's just my opinion.

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I use M-Power Solutions. I'm friends with the owner - he's a great guy, and the hit rate and accuracy is around 90%. Pretty solid.

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The format I use when I skip trace includes owner 1 and owner 2 in the same row. If you’re using quality skip tracing, you should be able to get back info for both husband and wife without having to separate into two records. That’d be a waste of money!

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What’s your personal favorite list to pull? I like the No Data list.

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It's very accurate - They're a billion dollar company that funnels a lot of money into making sure their property records are the most up-to-date out there.

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Originally posted by @Jon Guy:

@Tyler Gibson I have looked at list source but I have no idea of the exact criteria to set for something like this.

Hey Jon, I can definitely help you out with that. I'll send you a message.

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All Forum Posts by: Siobhan Kelly-Roberts

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