All Forum Posts by: Miguel G.

I optimize pages on my spare time. Basically what you do is the following:

1. Keyword Research - Pick the keywords relevant to your niche that'll bring in money
2. Embed those keywords everywhere without spamming your site. Your site has to be readable. The most important places you need to cover are the title of the page, the description, the H1,H2 tags, picture titles/alt.
3. Get an SEO plugin such as yoast SEO so that you can make your site friendly to facebook and twitter. This is where you also add the title/description of the page. SEO all pages.  
4. Content is king. You have to have a blog and post articles on a regular basis. The landing page is your most important page. Some people hire copy writers to create a page that converts visitors into paying clients.
5. Add your site to google and bing. Don't forget to index your sitemap and robots file.
6. Get links. This is the most time consuming task. A lot of people post articles on ezines and other places. The websites where you post articles have to have a high ranking or they're considered spam by google.

Now, SEO is not cheap. I always charge minimum $4000 for a client where the competition is not high. You're probably going to spend a lot more than that since Real Estate is very competitive.

my 2 cents.

Look at a map and see the are where the I-635, I-70 and US 71 intersect. This is a high crime area.  Go off away from it at least 1 mile. Now, the are to the North of 23rd street can be a little rough as well. I'm sure there's money to be made but it's not an area for somebody trying to invest there for the first time.

Nice places include Independence South of 23st , Lees Summit, Raytown, Grandview, West of Troost Avenue, Gladstore, North KC.

64128 is a high-crime area. It's scary especially at night time. Are you sure you want to put $250K into an area you wouldn't even dare walking alone at night time without a gun loaded? Most likely you'll have to rent to section 8 tenants and not everybody takes care of their properties. A lot of them are dirty and you'll see rats coming out of their apartments. With that much money, you're better off attending tax sales auctions or regular  auctions if you know what you're doing.

 I talked to my title company and they told me to just send an invoice signed by me and the wholesaler and specified where the funds were going to be disbursed from. Simple enough :)

Just talk to a real estate attorney about a Purchase and Sale Agreement as well as an assignment of contract and start doing your own deals. It takes patience and perseverance but you don't need a $50K program to get started.

Yah, I don't deal with investors because they ask for a high EMD and I don't blame them because I do the same. Only when it's one of those deals you just can't pass. Other than that, I can get my own deals somewhere else.

I offered to help a wholesaler friend of mine to sell one of his deals. The thing is that I want to make everything legal and get paid for it but I am not sure how to do this. Do I do another assignment of contract on top of his to assign it to my buyer?. I have a buyer now but I just don't want to be left out of the deal. 

Currently, I live in the Midwest and yes, there are lots of jobs here but the pay is usually low compared to other cities while the cost of living is comparable. I moved to Kansas from Florida during the recession and I was happy to see there were lots of jobs in Kansas but not so happy about the cost of living there. Overland Park, Kansas turned out to be more expensive than Orlando, Florida but with a lot more jobs. I always tell my friends that the Midwest is great for new grads or when the recession hits but not always the best option for experienced professionals.