All Forum Posts by: Tristan S.

Hello everyone,

I started my own marketing in Houston about 6 weeks ago, working a 1200 people list that I built using Real Acquisition .com and sending yellow letters.

I have used a filter called "Loan modification" in real acquisition, using both absentee owner and owner occupied. That filter is supposed to be people that have had possible issues making their payment and have discussed modifying their loan payment with their bank, sounded like it could be good leads.

I mailed the full list once, 1200 leads, got 3 responses. Pretty weak but to be expected for the first wave, I was not worrying too much. But I took a harder look at the list and something did look funny :

The list is all like that, 5 to 10 results on the same street ! and those street are not big streets at all. Which sounded weird to me since I was targeting many zip codes.

I need your guys experience to kind of make sense to all that. I do not mind doing my own marketing but it would be annoying to mail a bad list. What do you guys think of all that ? Have you used real acquisition before ? any advice ?

Thanks a lot for your help.

Tony Castronovo great job! That is exactly the strategy I plan on applying. I started my own marketing recently in the hope of finding good deals. Would you share how you found those two properties ? Also, could you share who you used for the HML and the long term refinancing ?

Welcome to BP! It's the best way to get started and network with people. The sooner you start the better, I don't have much experience but can recommend you good books and real estate meetings to attend around town. That's how I met amazing people that keep me going ! See you around and gig 'em !

Hung Trieu I am about to try using yellowletters.com, did you have a back experience with them ? What happened ?

@Robert Smith that's a great point ! So you would rather keep your yellow letter message quite classic ? or do you include anything else to stand out ? I am drafting mine now and want to make sure it's as good as it can get.

Thanks again for your help.

@Robert Smith @Daniel Moore , In your letters, is it better to bring up that you know that the person might have some issues with their taxes/loan payments or you usually do not even bring that up in the letter. What do you think lead to the best results ?

Thanks

@Robert Smith thanks for the answer. I have been using real acquisition to get my lists. As @Daniel Moore was saying, I am planning on adding qualifications to the list.

Daniel, what tips would you have for the content of the marketing letters ? I'm trying to find ways to stand out from the crowd, I understand that you would not want to share your secrets and that's understandable but if you had some guidelines to put me on track, I would greatly appreciate.

Robert Smith thanks for the detailed response. I really appreciate. It does make sense. I was asking because I'm in the middle of building my list, which should be around 900 leads (due to my marketing budget), owner occupied results are on the thousands whereas absentee owner results are in the hundreds. What would you think would be the best way to kind of sort out the leads without spending days on it if I want to include some owner occupied leads . Thanks

@Daniel Moore,@Cameron Tope,@Robert Smith What about owner occupied ? do you ever mail any type of owner occupied lead or it's usually not worth it ?

Thanks for all the response, really helpful.

@Ari Gable, thanks for your answer, I have been attending their meetings for a good 8 months now. Great way to meet people.

@Cameron Tope, has that been statistically proven ? or is that from personnal experience ?