All Forum Posts by: James McAlister

Real Estate Lead List Building: Target Your Prospective Customers

REVAS are List Building experts.

With access to many of the best skip trace & data brokerage services, we can connect Names to Addresses to Phone Numbers as well as anyone.

We are also familiar with accessing many county & city records websites to compile information from public records, as well as appending additional contact information based on names & addresses.

The objective of hiring a list building Virtual Assistant is straightforward. So you can build lists of:

• potential clients
• potential investment properties
• property owner information
• high-net worth individuals
• businesses that meet certain criteria

or any other pertinent information you may need for your lead generation & advertising efforts.

Learn More: Real Estate List Building using Virtual Assistants

Your Virtual Assistant will build quality lists to meet your lead generation criteria that you can use for all outbound marketing & advertising campaigns.

Using our economical back-office labor and efficient database access, we can provide one of the lowest priced sources for lists you’ll find.

We are list building experts for many of the facets of real estate, so we can help you define your criteria based on our experiences.

If you think this might be a good fit for your real estate business, check us out online.

BIGGERPOCKETS EXCLUSIVE:

To My BiggerPockets Colleagues & Connections:

Glassridge is in the final stages of a merger with Real Estate Virtual Assistant Services.

Soon, in addition to helping finance your Investments with Hard Money Loans, we're going to be helping you generate leads, find deals, automate, and outsource your real estate business.

Until the merger is completed in April, I’ll be sharing daily BiggerPockets-exclusive discounts for:

Real Estate Virtual Assistant Services

Please contact me directly if you have any questions about how we can help streamline, systematize, automate, and outsource your business.

When you schedule your Opportunity Analysis Consultation with REVAS (the first step for all new Clients), mention that you arrived from ‘Glassridge BiggerPockets,’ and you’ll get 10% off your first month of the service!

Widest Selection of Private Hard Money Loans [Nationwide]

All Types of Private Hard Money Loans: From Short-Term to Long-Term to Commercial to Construction.

One of our specialties at Glassridge is providing access to a wide variety of Private Financing all under one roof. We understand that Builders & Developers also do Fix & Flips and build Rental Property Portfolios, even if it’s just on the side as a personal investment. Buyers of Apartment Buildings also buy other types of Commercial Real Estate.

Real estate investors to a variety of different types of deals over the course of our careers, and we wanted to create a Lending Platform where you can finance all your deals under one roof.

Some Types Of Loans We Offer

We break our loans down into 4 main categories, each with several subcategories:

1. Short-term Residential Hard Money.

   • Real Estate Fix & Flip Loans.
   • Single Family Fix & Flip Loans.
   • 2 - 4 Unit Fix & Flip Loans.
   • Apartment Building (5+ Unit) Fix & Flips Loans.
   • Residential Bridge Loans.

2. Long-term Residential Hard Money.

   • Single Family Rental Property Loans.
   • 2 - 4 Unit Rental Property Loans.
   • Apartment Building (5+ Unit) Hard Money Loans.
   • Investment Property Refinancing Loans.
   • Blanket Portfolio Loans (3+ properties).

3. Commercial Hard Money.

   • Office Building Private Financing.
   • Retail Property Private Financing.
   • Industrial Real Estate Private Financing.
   • Commercial Bridge Loans.
   • Agricultural Real Estate Loans.

4. Construction Financing.

   • Single Residence Construction Loans.
   • Multi Property Construction & Development Loans.
   • Apartment Building Construction Financing.
   • Commercial Construction Loans.
   • Raw Land Acquisition Loans.

All-in-all, we offer about 23 distinct categories of Private Hard Money Loans, for every type of real estate deal you’re looking to finance.

Glassridge Typical Private Hard Money Loan Terms & Rates

As a nationwide lender with so many types of Private Hard Money Loan Programs, ranging from short-term (1 - 2 years) to long-term (30+ years), it’s hard to generalize.

However, below are some of our rough ballpark details that apply nearly across the board:

Hard Money Commercial Real Estate Loan Program Details

• Up to 60% - 90% LTV.
• Minimum Loan: $30k for Single Family, $150k for Apartment Buildings & Commercial.
• Maximum Loan: $100m+
• Minimum FICO Required: 500 - 700 (depending on loan type, terms, and rates).
• Typical Loan Term: From 1 - 2 years (for short-term Bridge Loans) to 30+ years (traditional Commercial Financing).
• Ballpark Interest Rates: 6.5% - 12% (depends on many factors).
• Ballpark Origination Fees: 2.5% - 5%

We also have specialized Private Hard Money Loan Programs to help cater to the needs of your unique scenarios, including Foreign National Hard Money Loans, ARV-based LTV Loans, and Low Doc / No Doc Loans.

Taking The First Step To Get Funded

If you’re wondering anything about our Private Hard Money Financing options, feel free to contact me here on BiggerPockets, or check us out at Glassridge.com.

If you already have a deal in mind, you can even get started by submitting it via our quick, online:

Once you submit your info there, myself or one of our other Financing Specialists will get back to you within 24 hours to either gather more info or provide a personalized rate quote.

You’re welcome to reach me via any of the contact info in my signature too.

Thanks for reading!

Attainable Access To Fix & Flip Private Hard Money Financing

Short-Term Fix & Flip Financing For All Types Of Real Estate [Nationwide].

Glassridge offers a variety of short-term Real Estate Fix & Flip Loans for all types of properties, from Single Family Residences to 2 - 4 Unit Multiplexes, to 5 - 100+ Unit Apartment Building Loans.

While we also offer more long-term Buy & Hold financing, if you’re looking for a short-term (~12 month) loan to help cover:

• From 60% up to 80% of your purchase price (or even 90% in some states & circumstances), and
• Up to 100% of your rehab & repair costs.

We’re a nationwide lender with all types of Private Hard Money Loan Programs for all types of properties & investment strategies, from short-term to long-term.

Our most popular Hard Money Loans are for Single Family Fix & Flips and similar short-term Bridge Loans, but we can lend on all types of real estate Fix & Flips, even up to 100+ Unit Apartment Building Fix & Flip Loans..

While these rules aren’t written in stone, and we review every prospective loan on a case-by-case basis, here are some of the basic:

Hard Money Fix & Flip Loan Program Details

• Up to 80 - 90% of Purchase Price.
• Up to 100% of Rehab Costs.
• Minimum Loan: $50k.
• Maximum Loan: $1m.
• Minimum FICO Required: 500 - 600
• Typical Loan Term: 12 months, with option for extension.
• Ballpark Interest Rates: 8% - 12% (depends on many factors, can be higher or lower too).
• Ballpark Origination Fees: 2% - 5%

These generalized program details apply to SFRs as well as 2 - 4 Unit duplexes, triplexes, and quadplexes. They’re similar for Apartment Buildings, but those types of larger deals are considered much more on a case by case basis.

For more details, check out some of these pages on Glassridge.com, like:

1. Single Family Fix And Flip Loans
2. 2 - 4 Unit Fix & Flip Loans
3. Apartment Building Fix & Flip Loans (5+ Units)
4. Rehab & Renovation Loans
5. Residential Bridge Loans

We also have specialized Hard Money Fix & Flip Programs to help cater to the needs of your unique scenarios, including Foreign National Hard Money Loans, ARV-based LTV Loans, and Low Doc / No Doc Loans.

If you’re wondering anything about Fix & Flip Financing, or Private Hard Money Loans in general, feel free to contact me here on BiggerPockets, or reach me directly via any of the contact info in my signature.

Thanks!

Today’s Real Estate Virtual Assistant recommendation:.

Outsource Your Menial Data Entry & Admin Tasks

Hiring a Data Entry & Record Keeping Virtual Assistant allows you to save money by reducing local staff costs and / or increases higher priced local staff’s output by allowing them to focus strictly on tasks that require their physical presence (and outsourcing the menial, repetitive tasks that do not). Once your processes are set-up and your staff is trained, you can pretty much “set it and forget it.”

Why a Data Entry & Record Keeping Virtual Assistant?

Regardless of exactly what you & your business do … if you are working in the real estate industry you probably deal with a lot of:

• Documentation
• Paperwork
• Note Taking
• Data Entry
• Filing
• Record Keeping

While much of what you do requires your physical presence, and therefore cannot be outsourced, it is likely that up to 80% of your local data entry & record keeping can be outsourced to a much lower cost Virtual Assistant.

By outsourcing your data entry & record keeping tasks one by one, you can slowly determine the threshold of moving activities off-site, optimizing for the greatest savings without sacrificing output quality. We always maintain industry-standard data security to ensure your privacy, and can utilize any software systems you currently use in your data management operations.

It is an excellent idea to use outsourcing and streamline your repetitive data entry & record keeping process to reduce overhead and improve local staff output by freeing their time to focus on tasks only they can complete.

If this would fit with your real estate business, check us out at:

https://realestatevirtualassistantservices.com/data-entry/

BIGGERPOCKETS EXCLUSIVE:

To My BiggerPockets Colleagues & Connections:

Glassridge is in the final stages of a merger with Real Estate Virtual Assistant Services.

Soon, in addition to helping finance your Investments with Hard Money Loans, we're going to be helping you generate leads, find deals, automate, and outsource your real estate business.

Until the merger is completed in April, I’ll be sharing daily BiggerPockets-exclusive discounts for:

Real Estate Virtual Assistant Services

Please contact me directly if you have any questions about how we can help streamline, systematize, automate, and outsource your business.

When you schedule your Opportunity Analysis Consultation with REVAS (the first step for all new Clients), mention that you arrived from ‘Glassridge BiggerPockets,’ and you’ll get 10% off your first month of the service!

Real Estate Search Engine Marketing

Your Search Engine Marketing Virtual Assistant is there to improve your online search traffic, via on-page keyword optimization, internal link structure, and off-page link building (SEO), as well as to help you generate affordable website visitors via Pay-Per-Click (PPC) search engine advertising.

There are two main ways to go about getting traffic from search engines (real estate search engine marketing).

The first, “organic” optimization or SEO entails both “onpage” and “off-page” criteria to improve your site’s search rankings.

The second, “paid search” or PPC includes placing ads on Google Adwords / Adsense, Bing Ads, and even LinkedIn, Zillow, Trulia, and other paid display advertising platforms.

Real Estate SEO

For real estate SEO, we can help you with things like on-page keyword research & optimization, website redesign, search compatibility best practices, suggesting articles to create, and even have our US-based, native English speaking copywriters write them for you.

By using proprietary, subscription-based research tools to be sure we pick the best keyword strategy to fit your situation & budget, we can significantly improve your organic search ranking.

Real Estate PPC

For real estate PPC and other paid display advertising approaches, we can help you price shop for the best networks and “low hanging fruit” keywords.

We can also help you draft & test ads, including managing your campaigns from start-to-finish while providing detailed analytics and reporting so you can see conversion improvements & monitor progress.

Our goal is to get you the best price-per-lead for the best quality PPC leads for your business.

Real Estate SEM In General

Real Estate Search Engine Marketing can be one of the most beneficial lead sources for any business. It represents people who:

• Are actively searching for what you have to offer,
• Were interested enough to visit your website & call / opt-in, and
• Don’t require human interaction until they’re a warm inbound lead.

Organic search engine traffic (real estate SEO) is obviously the best bet if you can win it, because it represents ongoing visitors to your site even if you stop actively managing it.

Paid search traffic (real estate PPC) is one of the fastest ways to drive visitors to a web page, since as soon as you fund your ad budget & select some keywords, your ads can go live.

It’s also one of the most versatile when it comes to testing different messages and campaigns.

Real Estate Search Engine Marketing (SEO & PPC)

BIGGERPOCKETS EXCLUSIVE:

To My BiggerPockets Colleagues & Connections:

Glassridge is in the final stages of a merger with Real Estate Virtual Assistant Services.

Soon, in addition to helping finance your Investments with Hard Money Loans, we're going to be helping you generate leads, find deals, automate, and outsource your real estate business.

Until the merger is completed in April, I’ll be sharing daily BiggerPockets-exclusive discounts for:

Real Estate Virtual Assistant Services

Please contact me directly if you have any questions about how we can help streamline, systematize, automate, and outsource your business.

When you schedule your Opportunity Analysis Consultation with REVAS (the first step for all new Clients), mention that you arrived from ‘Glassridge BiggerPockets,’ and you’ll get 10% off your first month of the service!

Industrial Property Loans

Industrial Real Estate Financing - Industrial Property Private Hard Money Loans

Industrial real estate investing is a competitive & exciting niche, and in turn, so is industrial real estate financing. Industrial property loans are available from banks & private lenders alike, so if you’re a qualified Borrower & the deal is hot, you should have Lenders competing for your business.

This especially applies to newer industrial buildings located in major cities, as these are one of our hottest commodities right now as a Lender. If you're a qualified Industrial Property Real Estate Investor & Borrower, we can definitely get you funded!

Types Of Industrial Properties We Can Finance

There are several particular types of industrial real estate financing deals we'd love to help you get funded include:

• Warehouse building loans.
• Distribution center loans.
• Heavy industrial building loans.
• Light manufacturing building loans
• Data center & telecom building financing.
• Flex industrial financing.
• R&D building loans.
• Many more!

If you’re considering an Industrial Property Acquisition or Refinance, and are looking for a proven & convenient financing partner, Glassridge is your choice.

If you have any questions or would like to learn more about Private Industrial Property Financing, feel free to contact me here on BiggerPockets, or check us out at Glassridge.com.

If you already have a deal in mind, you can even get started by submitting it via our quick, online:

2 Minute Pre-Qual™

Once you submit your info there, myself or one of our other Financing Specialists will get back to you within 24 hours to either gather more info or provide a personalized rate quote.

You’re welcome to reach me via any of the contact info in my signature too.

Thanks for reading!

Outsourced Real Estate Web Research & Data Scraping

Real Estate Virtual Assistants for Online Research & List Building / Data Scraping

The goal of hiring a Web Research & Data Scraping Virtual Assistant is to acquire any information or data you require via online resources, including:

• property information
• news
• local trends
• any other real estate related data you might need.

Why a Research Virtual Assistant?

Whether you need some additional research about:

• specific properties (via Zillow / Trulia / auditor / assessor sites),
• local market information & news, or
• 10,000 records transcribed from a website to your local spreadsheet or CRM,

Our Research Virtual Assistants & software development team can help you get the information you need.

Never waste your personal time on menial Admin duties like web research!

Your time, as a US-based real estate professional, is much too valuable to be invested in trivial duties you can easily outsource to an Overseas Virtual Assistant.

Our dedicated Research & Data Entry Virtual Assistants do nothing but these types of projects all day, every day, meaning once we have a proven process to achieve your objectives, you can set it & forget it.

Plus, by including our software development team on bigger projects, we can often use automated tools to “scrape” (locally database) huge amounts of information in a tiny fraction of the time it would take to get the same data manually.

If you could use Research / Data Scraping help in your real estate business from a qualified Virtual Assistant by a proven service provider, learn more here:

Real Estate Web Research & Data Scraping Virtual Assistants

BIGGERPOCKETS EXCLUSIVE:

To My BiggerPockets Colleagues & Connections:

Glassridge is in the final stages of a merger with Real Estate Virtual Assistant Services.

Soon, in addition to helping finance your Investments with Hard Money Loans, we're going to be helping you generate leads, find deals, automate, and outsource your real estate business.

Until the merger is completed in April, I’ll be sharing daily BiggerPockets-exclusive discounts for:

Real Estate Virtual Assistant Services

Please contact me directly if you have any questions about how we can help streamline, systematize, automate, and outsource your business.

When you schedule your Opportunity Analysis Consultation with REVAS (the first step for all new Clients), mention that you arrived from ‘Glassridge BiggerPockets,’ and you’ll get 10% off your first month of the service!

Attainable Access To Fix & Flip Private Hard Money Financing

Short-Term Fix & Flip Financing For All Types Of Real Estate [Nationwide].

Glassridge offers a variety of short-term Real Estate Fix & Flip Loans for all types of properties, from Single Family Residences to 2 - 4 Unit Multiplexes, to 5 - 100+ Unit Apartment Building Loans.

While we also offer more long-term Buy & Hold financing, if you’re looking for a short-term (~12 month) loan to help cover:

• From 60% up to 80% of your purchase price (or even 90% in some states & circumstances), and
• Up to 100% of your rehab & repair costs.

We’re a nationwide lender with all types of Private Hard Money Loan Programs for all types of properties & investment strategies, from short-term to long-term.

Our most popular Hard Money Loans are for Single Family Fix & Flips and similar short-term Bridge Loans, but we can lend on all types of real estate Fix & Flips, even up to 100+ Unit Apartment Building Fix & Flip Loans..

While these rules aren’t written in stone, and we review every prospective loan on a case-by-case basis, here are some of the basic:

Hard Money Fix & Flip Loan Program Details

• Up to 80 - 90% of Purchase Price.
• Up to 100% of Rehab Costs.
• Minimum Loan: $50k.
• Maximum Loan: $1m.
• Minimum FICO Required: 500 - 600
• Typical Loan Term: 12 months, with option for extension.
• Ballpark Interest Rates: 8% - 12% (depends on many factors, can be higher or lower too).
• Ballpark Origination Fees: 2% - 5%

These generalized program details apply to SFRs as well as 2 - 4 Unit duplexes, triplexes, and quadplexes. They’re similar for Apartment Buildings, but those types of larger deals are considered much more on a case by case basis.

For more details, check out some of these pages on Glassridge.com, like:

1. Single Family Fix And Flip Loans
2. 2 - 4 Unit Fix & Flip Loans
3. Apartment Building Fix & Flip Loans (5+ Units)
4. Rehab & Renovation Loans
5. Residential Bridge Loans

We also have specialized Hard Money Fix & Flip Programs to help cater to the needs of your unique scenarios, including Foreign National Hard Money Loans, ARV-based LTV Loans, and Low Doc / No Doc Loans.

If you’re wondering anything about Fix & Flip Financing, or Private Hard Money Loans in general, feel free to contact me here on BiggerPockets, or reach me directly via any of the contact info in my signature.

Thanks!

Investment Property Refinance Loans

Loans For Refinancing Rental Properties

If you’re looking for investment property refinancing on a Non-Owner Occupied property you already own, we have a wide variety of options.

We offer hard money loans to refinance investment properties of all types, from single families, to multi-units (2 - 4 units), to apartment buildings (5 - 500+ units), to commercial properties, with terms ranging from 1 to 30+ years.

This type of investment property refinancing is an excellent choice to refi a rental property you intend to Buy & Hold.

When To Refinance Your Real Estate Investments

The most common priorities for investors looking for rental property refinance loans are typically:

1. Previous loan term is expiring. If you have a current loan that’s about to expire or jump to a higher balloon payment, now's the time to refi.
2. Get more favorable rates & terms. If you can refinance your current loan without paying any penalties, then it makes sense to shop around for a better option, especially if you're getting close to a balloon payment or rising interest rate.
3. Cash out equity. If you have a lot of equity that you’ve built up and would like to cash out to use those funds for other priorities, we even have specialized Cash Out Refinancing Hard Money Loans.
4. Escape an undesirable lender. If your current financing is through a bank or private lender, and you'd rather not keep dealing with them, refinance with a more friendly financing partner like Glassridge!

Of course, there are plenty of other reasons to refinance, but these are the most common that I see on a daily basis. The main thing to take away from this is that you can always refinance your real estate investments. It might not come up very often, but it's worth reviewing your primary mortgages at least once or twice a year and checking your available options to see if you can get a better deal.

Glassridge Investment Property Refinancing

While it will largely depend on the type of deal, property condition & location, as well as specific details of the borrower, our Hard Money Investment Property Refinancing Loans will usually offer maximum LTVs ranging from 65% - 80%. Higher LTV refinancing loans can be especially useful for the investor whose goal is to cash out equity.

Since we offer refi loans on a variety of property types & scenarios, the Rates & Terms also have a wide breadth.

In terms of ballpark rates & terms, you can expect anywhere from:

• 2 - 5 Points Origination Fee.
• 7% - 12% Interest on long-term Buy & Hold refinancing.
• from 1 - 30+ years.

All of these numbers are subject to change, as they are determined on a case-by-case basis, so refer to these for the rough ballparks they are.

Hard Money Investment Property Refinancing is one of the most flexible types of real estate loan we can offer. So if you’re wondering anything about Investment Property Refinance Loans or any other type of Commercial Real Estate Financing, feel free to contact me here on BiggerPockets, or check us out at Glassridge.com.

Thanks!

Guaranteed ‘Done For You’ All-In-One Real Estate Lead Generation.

All-In-One Real Estate Lead Generation is the most popular bundled package offer from Real Estate Virtual Assistant Services [REVAS].

This is a 'Done For You' lead generation solution, guaranteed to create a steady flow of inbound leads, or we'll keep working for free.

Read the full details, including MONTHLY PRICING PACKAGES, here.

For a quick overview, the All-In-One Real Estate Lead Generation bundle includes:

1. Written content creation.
2. Video content creation.*
3. SEO.
4. Social Media.
5. Lead capture website.
6. Automated follow up.
7. Sharing & syndicating content.

*Video content creation is not included in the BASIC plan, only in the PLUS+ and VIP plans.

About ‘All-In-One Real Estate Lead Generation’

The specific combination of services, arranged into three monthly pricing packages, is the REVAS Founder & CEO’s answer to the question:

"What would you do with only $X per month to spend on getting leads?"

At Real Estate Virtual Assistant Services, we have have a lot of Clients who've lost money on lead generation & marketing campaigns that failed.

We've also seen campaigns generate 10x ROI in only a few months.

With behind-the-scenes access to all our campaigns, including back-office hands-on experience with hundreds of top producers…

We know what's working, and what's failing, right now, in hundreds of real estate companies around the country.

The All-In-One Real Estate Lead Generation bundle is our CEO’s own personal top-priority task-list that he’d be implementing with only $500, $800, or $1200 per month to spend on real estate lead generation.

It's the only lead generation service REVAS offers that actually guarantees inbound lead flow.

This approach works.

Guaranteed.

Learn More: All-In-One Real Estate Lead Generation

BIGGERPOCKETS EXCLUSIVE:

To My BiggerPockets Colleagues & Connections:

Glassridge is in the final stages of a merger with Real Estate Virtual Assistant Services.

Soon, in addition to helping finance your Investments with Hard Money Loans, we're going to be helping you generate leads, find deals, automate, and outsource your real estate business.

Until the merger is completed in April, I’ll be sharing daily BiggerPockets-exclusive discounts for:

Real Estate Virtual Assistant Services

Please contact me directly if you have any questions about how we can help streamline, systematize, automate, and outsource your business.

When you schedule your Opportunity Analysis Consultation with REVAS (the first step for all new Clients), mention that you arrived from ‘Glassridge BiggerPockets,’ and you’ll get 10% off your first month of the service!