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All Forum Posts by: William Silva

William Silva has started 9 posts and replied 47 times.

Post: looking for lenders

William SilvaPosted
  • Posts 51
  • Votes 31

It's imperative to work with a reputable company. I work with many investors across the nation.

Take a look at our company to learn more.
https://williamsilva.themortgagecalculator.com/

Post: Getting Started in Wholesaling

William SilvaPosted
  • Posts 51
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Quote from @Jerryll Noorden:
Quote from @William Silva:

@Jerryll Noorden

Jerryll, 

Don't you use Investor carrot for your website?

Also, you're saying the fastest way to get leads is facebook ads, but the best long term way to get leads is SEO. If you rank #1 on google, do you still pay for facebook ads?


 I have never paid for any ads for my real estate investing business. never drove for dollars, never made a single call.

100% of my leads are organic. I get more leads I could possibly handle so it wouldn't make any sense to me to do any other form of marketing.

But yes, the fastest way to get deals is to get your website up and running and drive motivated seller traffic ot the website.

I use the HOST of investor carrot. That is all I am using from them. The entire website is of my design. In fact, we are building out our own website host that will compete with all the other providers out there, investorcarrot included. We have significantly outgrown investorcarrot host and I don't quite agree with their SEO strategies..

and lastly, there is a bozo out there that copied my website, my SEO, my EVERYTHING, and investor carrot is promoting them DESPITE them knowing he is a fraud just because that fraud is sucking up to them.

It is UTTERLY disgusting.

So I am done with them the second my host is up and running!


Appreciate you letting me know that. I did see people with the SEO badge you have posted, but I'm assuming that is you servicing them.

Post: Getting Started in Wholesaling

William SilvaPosted
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@John Slater

Thanks for your response!

Post: Getting Started in Wholesaling

William SilvaPosted
  • Posts 51
  • Votes 31

@Jerryll Noorden

Jerryll, 

Don't you use Investor carrot for your website?

Also, you're saying the fastest way to get leads is facebook ads, but the best long term way to get leads is SEO. If you rank #1 on google, do you still pay for facebook ads?

Post: Getting Started in Wholesaling

William SilvaPosted
  • Posts 51
  • Votes 31

@Eliott Elias I'm a great closer and fantastic with sellers :)  - I come from the real estate, Mortgage industry. I've been doing it for the previous 8 years. This recent year, I began Tech sales but would love to start Flipping/wholesaling. I see a lot of people getting scared of Real estate and moving to other industries because "times are tough" - That is exactly me entry point, when the market is less saturated by fear.

Post: Getting Started in Wholesaling

William SilvaPosted
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  • Votes 31

@Jerryll Noorden

I appreciate the response. I was being led down the wrong path. After doing a lot of reading on the way you approach this it really opened up my eyes. I do want to start a few websites with Investor carrot and grow my business organically but I also wanted to get a few deals under my belt.

Post: Getting Started in Wholesaling

William SilvaPosted
  • Posts 51
  • Votes 31

Good day ladies and gentleman,

I'm getting started in wholesaling and have some idea of what to do to get started but I'd like some input from someone who does 2+ deals a month.

I've been told that Automate REI will be used to generate a list of potential sellers. After I've acquired that list, I will use a 3rd party Skip tracer to get 2-3 phone numbers per seller. Next, I will send a blast text to all those phone numbers, not exactly sure which SMS software is the best, most cost effective but I believe I heard Batch can do the job (input here would be lovely!) Once I get someone interested in speaking, I will set up a time to speak with them to discovery pain, property, etc. Then make a fair offer. Once I get a property under contract I'll send someone to take pics using craigslist for about 30-40 dollars, I will again use automate REI to locate the cash buyers in that area and then again, send out a SMS to all the potential buyers with pictures of the property, details, ARV, etc. The gray area for me is once I have the contract, the buyer who I'll assign contract to, what title company do I use? Is there such thing as closing virtually? Do I send a mobile notary?

I'd love some input on the strategy I've written, how you can tweak it to make it better and any overall suggestions would be much appreciated. Thank you!