Our family is currently in another country and is moving to Los Angeles Ca in June~July.

I am a 25 year Real Estate agent in SoCal (mostly residential however venturing more into commercial; and getting back into investing in other states as well, which will be my next post) I have tried quite a few lead services and while some may do better in other areas of the country , most seem to a flop in this area, of those tried HouseJet, Reaology, USHud and Realty Bargains( Realty Bargains was the best however they kept sending me mostly investors who's matrix would not pencil in the areas I serve)  I am doing my best to figure out social marketing, my views/impressions are good however that has not turned into transactions as of yet; So I am on the hunt for a 3rd party lead co with quality Seller leads.

consider the opportunity cost of doing this#1) sell house for cash or to a buyer with their own financing from a bank, etc and you get 315K at time zero, you invest that at historic SP500 8.4% return over last 220 yrs and it grows to $3,541,514.46#2) do owner financing and you get 100k up front that invested at 8.4% grows to $1,250,000, plus you get your payments at $1400 x 360 months or $502k, invested grows to $3,265,000 total including the 1.25 mil aboveso you come out 300k better not doing it and you don't have to service the loan and all the other risksremember banks don't even carry mortgage notes after origination, they dump them onto the US taxpayer via illegal-unconstitutional havens like Fannie/Freddie/HUD, and for last 15 yrs the FED has bought every MBS in the country, which frees up the Banks capital to do it again and make the real money on churning the points and feesplus will next 30 yrs have higher inflation than last 30 yrs?

Weekends are more flexible, with about 8-hours of available time.3) House hacking is not an option because my folks moved across the country (in to our same neighborhood) so they could be closer to their grandchildren.

The IMN Single Family Rental East and West conferences are always great opportunities to meet with the most active residential rental experts in the country.

With the program I receive daily FSBO listings in my area and a program that showd foreclosed or preforeclosure homes anywhere in the country.

-- I've been wanting to try Facebook, however, I'm concerned that my ads are going to go all over the country rather than in the Chicago area where I am located..  

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Hi Armando.Flagstaff is better than average for the country, but still yields lower returns than Sedona.

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