All Forum Posts by: Luis Alfaro

Luis Alfaro if you want to flip houses I would recommend finding a flipper in your area and going to work for them. Start at the bottom, learn and work your way up. Managing projects is a lot of work, there is a ton to know. How are you planning on funding your projects? Any creditable private/hard money lender is going to want to see you have experience in successfully pulling off a flip or two (maybe more). I am not saying what you want cannot be done, it can! I am saying you have to start somewhere, learn what you are doing. Become a master of your craft. To make money you have to either have money or become GREAT at creating value. Build a reputation for doing what you say! Wealth is built over time. Prepare yourself for that, take educated steps everyday and success will follow!

To your success bud!

list source sells list based on the parameters that you put in. You can also call a local title company to see if they will send you a list. 

@Luis Alfaro the issue @Steven J. mentions is real, but not in San Diego if that is the area you are interested in. Generally we find the data from the San Diego County Assessor to be very good compared to other counties.

- So you pull the list from Public Records but do you purchase the list at the Administration Center or do you drive for dollars and look up online? 

I think pulling a list is alot better but finding a really good list is hard. What do you suggest?

You can get deals through this type of service but keep in mind many other investors are using the same lists. 

Personally, I'm not a fan of them because of that fact and in my area the information is reported accurately. My area is more rural and because much of the information isn't reported at all, such as how many bedrooms per house, the criteria doesnt exist in list source. I've found that using local sources such as the court house is going to be much more accurate and sometimes cheaper.

@Darren Nichols

I build my own list using the counties public records. Mostly quit claim deeds, tax deeds, release of mortgage and probates. I use excel spreadsheets to track these, it takes a bit long at first but once you have it going it becomes easy to update at least once a week.

I prefer to do it like this mainly because its free, because I see transfers of properties before the new owners take title (quit claims, ROM) so I can get to them first and mostly to avoid sateration. All your competition is too lazy to put in this type of work and prefer to buy a list. A list that about 50 investors and about 200 realtors are mailing to.

I started my buyers list by going to see a foreclosure one day as a newbie. This foreclosure had so many flyers and businesss cards I was in shock, I mean I could see the floor. So I picked up what I could carry and listed about 150 names.

The point is find a good niche and stick to it.