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All Forum Posts by: Paul Sorgi

Paul Sorgi has started 10 posts and replied 340 times.

Post: RED SOX WIN THE 2013 WORLD SERIES!!!

Paul SorgiPosted
  • Real Estate Investor
  • Abington, MA
  • Posts 356
  • Votes 114

I'll second your happiness!

Post: Probate Leads Worcester County

Paul SorgiPosted
  • Real Estate Investor
  • Abington, MA
  • Posts 356
  • Votes 114

There is no list you need to mine the data yourself by looking at each file. It would be nice to know as @Shaun Reilly mentioned if all the information is in the file.

Post: What can $500 rent in your city?

Paul SorgiPosted
  • Real Estate Investor
  • Abington, MA
  • Posts 356
  • Votes 114

A room in a boarding house for $125/wk. Maybe a studio.

Post: Buying cashflow-negative properties? (massachusetts)

Paul SorgiPosted
  • Real Estate Investor
  • Abington, MA
  • Posts 356
  • Votes 114

You didn't share the location of the property or the # of beds/baths. Without more information I can't comment on this particular property.

If you are investing in a negative cash flow then I would assume you are looking for appreciation. This appreciation would also have to account for your additional yearly financial contributions into the property.

You need to know what you want from the investment and establish your buying criteria from there.

Do you want cash flow? How much per unit?

What are you anticipating for appreciation?

How long do you intend to hold?

I hope this helps.

Post: Cost of Vacant House Leads

Paul SorgiPosted
  • Real Estate Investor
  • Abington, MA
  • Posts 356
  • Votes 114

Explain to him what you want then ask him how much he would like for supplying you with that information. I think if all he is bringing you is an address and a picture of a vacant home $5 to $10 should be enough.

Post: Cost of Vacant House Leads

Paul SorgiPosted
  • Real Estate Investor
  • Abington, MA
  • Posts 356
  • Votes 114

Offer him a referral fee of $500 if you buy the property.

Post: Probate Leads

Paul SorgiPosted
  • Real Estate Investor
  • Abington, MA
  • Posts 356
  • Votes 114

and @Shaun Reilly was concerned about spending to much time researching probate leads Congrats on the big 500!

Post: Marketing to Vacant Houses

Paul SorgiPosted
  • Real Estate Investor
  • Abington, MA
  • Posts 356
  • Votes 114

You could send a letter and it maybe be forwarded to the the owner. Cost you less than a buck. Then again it just might be returned to you which just means you need to do a little more research. Try searching their name on google include "obituary" or search facebook. You could also hire a skip tracer to find the owner as well.

Post: Probate Leads

Paul SorgiPosted
  • Real Estate Investor
  • Abington, MA
  • Posts 356
  • Votes 114
Originally posted by Shaun Reilly:
Originally posted by Paul Sorgi:
Originally posted by Shaun Reilly:
Originally posted by Paul Sorgi:
@Justin Silverio here is the link to court records.
http://masscourts.org/;jsessionid=442AF118736C9532F78BB901893B2774?x=kH2zzLWJdlwOybL*9oqwUVzfKn76IV1rlYKZ*N5MRZrc8zaTo5gbctBEgxiOPRQP

FYI Justin don't get excited about this. It sucks! It LOOKS like you should be able to search all the cases in a time period in any town and it will have lots of information.

Since the town isn't even something they list in the record that filter doesn't work, doesn't even seem to filter by county (Even though you chose which counties court to look at) and no information on the contact for anyone even though there are fields for it (Other than some attorneys)

Pretty much it is only useful in that you can find the name of the deceased and know they are in the process before looking for the Obit. Which is basically what Paul said he is doing.

@Shaun Reilly I did not make it sound easy did I ? :-)

But if your starting with Public Notices this maybe one step less. Is there a better way? I am open if your sharing.

Hey Paul, no you did not make it sound easy. :)

What is annoying is that the court system webpage there LOOKS like it is really powerful, but then there is just no information. When you look at it you think you can drill stuff down really far and that there will be all sorts of contact information. Then in reality they don't even say what town people are it!

But if it was easy everyone would be doing it right?

Well it is a Government website did you really expect it to work? :-)

Post: Probate Leads

Paul SorgiPosted
  • Real Estate Investor
  • Abington, MA
  • Posts 356
  • Votes 114
Originally posted by Shaun Reilly:
Originally posted by Justin Silverio:
I've tried to use this site in the past but either I'm not using it correctly or the data is not up to date. Here are my steps:
- Select Probate & Family Court
- Select Essex County
- Select Case Type
- Enter Date of 1/1/13 - today and Andover as the town
- Result - no matches found

Am I doing something wrong?

Do the exact same thing but select all towns and you will get results.

Unfortunaetly I think you are getting every result in the state (I might be wrong but I'm not convinced it was even sorting by county, but I might be wrong on that).

After sifting through numerous records the County search seems to work.

I do use a narrower date range to limit the number of records.

My disclaimer is that I have not been researching probate very long and I was searching for a way to do it from"home" and this is what I have come up with. I am always open to refining my methods.