All Forum Posts by: Mary K.

Tim,

I'm sure its a challenge when it comes to a long term friend or family.  It's easy to evict/confront when there is no relationship with the individual.  Only you know your relationship with this person and background better than those of us that are giving you advise.  Especially if for 7 years activity has been happening where someone was profiting on your behalf. 

My feedback is a non-confrontational manner:

First decide if you no longer want this person to be in your rental even if they start paying higher than market rent.  If the answer is don't want them, then from a non confrontational manner immediately advise them you are selling the property and giving them a 30 day notice as you need to prepare it.

I am sure Airbnb will not share you anything.

However there is a person that is selling his course showing you how to airbnb a property without owning it.  I have seen 4 different Guru's that has been advertising this airbnb guru's course.  Here is the reply from an email this morning I got you can listen and learn more if you decide you want to get into the business.

https://get.reww.com/ap/bnb-replay/

Thanks,

Mary

I did sign up and Reyanld Camposo (owner) who offered a special to pay 2 weeks in advance at a time for 40 hour 'experienced' VA. (The total was$464 which equals out to $5.50 an hour plus tax of $24.) The service explained was the VA was experienced enough to be able to identify a lead from only online sources, make an offer, put it under a contract/option and then move (sell) it. Also, I was advised that I should get a deal within 30 to 45 days. Which peaked my interested because If I could have a VA find a deal every 30 to 45 days and I could wholesale at a minimum of $5k profit, well this would be a great strategy. I pretty much know in my direct mail that if I drop about $1300 in marketing, I get at least 1 deal and its within 2 weeks (in today's sellers market). Strictly looking to adding more marketing channels to increase my deals.

I have completed the 2nd week and had to give some training to the VA but she picked up fast (for example you can't use Realtytrac for your source of comparables. You must use other sources to validate facts. This came about because I audit the leads identified and share why it isn't or the need to ask for pictures when a seller says no work is needed in a house).

The VA provides on a daily basis an email that reports that details how many calls, voicemail, and also what potential leads that fit my buy criteria. Very happy with these reports. They do get their own Goggle voice number local to your area (which I pay for).

I was advised company has 20 clients and I have asked to pass my contact info to one of the clients that have been with the company for more than a year to get insight (from a customer standpoint) how they best utilized the company to increase their leads.  In addition, I have 2 other colleagues that are interested and hearing from an existing long term customer is also important.  The reason is the company website has customer referrals but they are from 2012.  As we know, Social proof is important if you are using a website. A company must have up to date referrals at least within a year. 

I mentioned in one of my post of Chad Childress autopilot offer program and found out from one of his referrals that he made the referral 10 years ago. 10 years!! The feedback was the product works best in a buyer's market and not today's sellers market. You also must have access to MLS which isn't shared when you sign up for the product. I felt it was best to share to potential students about how current or not current the referrals are. I feel it needs to be current.

Will update how the end of week 4 goes...I really hoping for a deal.

By chance did you ever try them or got a private response.  I plan to sign up with them.

I also got an marketing email from Josh Cantell on Real estate Riches by Ross Hamilton.  Anyone signed up?  

I signed up with connected investors and I spent about 10 hours over a 3 month time frame asking those who were on the site claiming they had REO properties or properties in certain states. I constantly asked to be added to the list and provided my email and received ZERO response. Based on this, I do not ask for properties.

Now with Real Estate Riches program, my confidence level is low. Maybe I should have sent a comment to the administrators that I am batting Zero with any response.

Hopefully someone can provide feedback if they signed up and used it for at least a month after the training.

I just applied for TLO and got turned down.  

I have an LLC for 3 years. I have a home office with locks and shredder (thought I didn't get to this phase yet).

For those who recently applied and got approved for TLO this year, can you advise literally what you put on your application forthe 'intended use'?  

i called to inquire but they won't give you the reason.

All I need is access to search vacant properties.  If there is anyone that would like to partner I would be willing to absorb most of the cost.

I paid $1200 for the Automated Deal Maker strictly for the purpose of finding out how I can have offers be sent automatically.  There were a lot said in the advertising.  Here are the facts along with my opinion:

1)They don't provide the REO list. (This should be disclosed upfront. The need to have access to MLS should also be disclosed.)

2)They have a way to send out any of deal you have and send it to their huge list of buyers.  Well, you have to split your profits with them.  (This should be disclosed upfront during the advertisement).

3)There are testimonials they use in their advertising. I found the one guy from Texas and he said this testimonial is over 7 years old and they do not use the system. Reason is when there was a lot of deals and bank owned the MLS had a lot of listings. In today's market, its limited. The tool works best in a market.

4)I did like the tool that sends you craigslist posting but I think this tool is not proprietary and has been around for anyone.

5)I did like the VA instruction manual for a VA to read that he provides and it is editable.

What was my golden nugget I got from this product:

-I operate with the mindset of having everything close to perfection. I blame this on my corporate america experience.   I honestly realized  I spend too much time in paralysis analysis..though I do get things done.  When Zach's preached "Good is Good enough", that clicked for me.  This hit me like a bullet train.  Not only in my business as a soloprenuer but my personal life.  His preaching was more of taking you to the next level.  Most importantly, my goal is to have my business working in spite of me (a few hours week) but spending the rest of my enjoying life.   It was the Mindset nugget in the manner Zach preached was my ah ha moment.  Yes, I have seen the mechanics and nuts and bolts with a team layout to make your dream work.

Sometimes 'the mesage' in any experienced guru/coach has to be translated in a way that is unique to you and at the right time where you are ready to absorb it.   

Hopefully this helps others.

Is there anyone that is planning to attend Bob Diamond's Hooked on Overages training in New Jersey from Nov 30 - Dec 2?  I am looking for partnership with this workshop training.  I have paid for the online training which is great.  Please send me a Private message.   

Thank you.

HI Devan,

If you don't want to spend much money:

Podio can interface with Oncarrot and its free for now.  I can recommend a Fiverr person that can make sure your leads from Oncarrot goes into podio (you will spend under $20).  I have used Podio for about 9 months.

If you have about $150 per month to spend, I would recommend using an advanced version of Podio where another investor has created.  I'm still learning how to use this version on Steriods.  If you are interested just private message me with all the info.

Mary!

I have had investorcarrot for about 4 months and only got the site and followed the free training of things to do.  As of today No leads (I pay $99 per month for Oncarrot for 2 sites and the weekly coaching call).  So I plan to spend $99 to review their 3 day training to go through myself of what else I need to do to improve my SEO.  They have another training on craigslist but I am not sure if there is a small charge for that as well.  I am on the $99 month plan for 3 sites but I only have 1 site right now.  

I am spending a little money on ppc per month for my single on carrot  site which I went through a PPC coaching program (not investor Carrot ($2700) that helped get a better understanding/foundation of PPC.  I heard a lot of horror stories about google having no problem spending your money and others throwing money at PPC so it was worth my knowledge to understand it.  This takes history building with Google so my expectation is 6 months.

I am focusing now on cleaning my Oncarrot to increase SEO.

I have had Realeflow for about a year and received no leads from their standard website.  However, I am only using Realeflow for the various leads for one price per month $99.  They have access to 99% of leads of any type for all 50 states. You cannot perform any changes to the site other than your name and other minor updates.  You can't do backlinking or any other actions needed to improve SEO like investorcarrot.

Realeflow offers mailing out postcards which the price is pretty much standard.  Realeflow does allow you to manage your leads (CRM).