All Forum Posts by: Alvin Grier

@Jamal Okon nothing too exciting, I got a little too excited.  In Realcomp, I'm told you can see any old listings for the property in the past.  If there are any, there's a "Number of units" field there that you can reference, as well as pictures.

If that doesn't work, the next best thing is to pull it up in Google and check out a street view of the property.

Figured it out.  Boy do I feel like an idiot.  LOL!  Happy investing.

Is there a website somewhere that I could use research addresses to find out the number of units (as well as the property type)?

The Land Use codes are very intermingled in the county I operate-within, so I can't go by that alone.

There's a Realtor in our office, so we are able to look subject properties up on the MLS, but that is pretty useless unless there's a picture provided in Realcomp.

I need a quick way to find out the number of units a property has, but I've yet to find a single, reliable place where I can obtain this information.

I get presented with 123 Main St (for example), and I we may get lucky and see some pictures in Realcomp (which helps), but if there are no pictures, I have yet to find a quick way to find out

1) What kind of property 123 Main St. is, b/c the land use code associated with it encompasses apartments, strip malls, and everything else into one code

2) The number of units a building has

Sometimes I'll get lucky and find an old loopnet listing that may help, but that's a crap shoot.

Do you know of a place where I can quickly obtain these two pieces of information on a particular property so I can save time and headache?  

@Rick H. you are right, I apologize.  I misunderstood the context of what you were saying.

I brought the topic up, because no one knows everything, and I was interested in having dialogue on the topic.

I have experience, just no experience contacting attorney directly, which is why I brought it up to see what other professionals thought, in case others have already done it.

@Rick H. how do you know what level of experience I have?  I find it a little inappropriate to label some one you don't know a "new, wannabe."  

I think I'm going to pass on the divorce stuff; at least for now.

@Derrick S. I think it might be illegal for attorneys to get kickbacks in that manner, but maybe I'm wrong.

Yeah, @JD Martin that's kind of what I was thinking as well.

I'm sure there are some deals here or there, but I'm leery on whether it's a ripe enough niche to make it worth adding another campaign to manage.  

I've marketing to Executors/PR's for probate cases for years now.

Since my wife is an agent, we offer cash offers as well as the ability to list properties in our marketing campaign for Executors.

I recently started taking note of the attorneys attached to the probate cases that I review.  I've been thinking about starting a new campaign to reach out to attorneys that I know have been recently involved in probate cases.

The goal would be for attorneys to recommend us as options when they take-on cases that contain real estate that the Executor is going to want to liquidate.

On one hand, since attorneys tend to encourage their clients to make as much as they can off of the properties, this could be a smart move, since we are able to list their client's inherited properties...

...on the other hand, I think to myself, "But what if the attorney doesn't have that much influence?"  

What are your thoughts on marketing to attorneys in this manner?

Has anyone ever experienced success marketing to divorced people for motivated seller leads?  

I've heard people mention it as a good niche to target.  

But from my experiences, quite often, after a divorce one of the divorcees ends-up staying in the house after the break-up, so I never thought it was a niche worth the time.  

Are divorces a good niche to target?

Don't quote me, but I think "Last recording date" can include quit claim deeds, etc.   Sale date makes sure you're only pulling dates based on when the property was actually sold