Time for you short-sales guys to redo your postcards, huh, Nick?

Hello everyone,Have an interesting opportunity I'm working on now, although not what I expected based upon my marketing (seems to always be the case).A little while ago I started doing postcard mailers to delinquent tax owners of vacant land, with the intention of doing land flipping.

Joe, use: http://www.phoenixmedia.com/ to print your postcards.

Once you've decided that, then you have to start marketing to sellers, e.g, letters, postcards, craigslist, etc.

It's already 11 days since the live event and here's where I stand in my progress: - found 2 realtors to partner with in locating properties on the MLS - got my website up (almost complete) and i WILL RANK for all the major keywords so i'll be pulling leads like crazy - started my buyers list and have a good 6, I can text if I have questions on a potential property that might fit their buying criteria - made around 10 calls to for sale by owner ads on craigslist (to get over the fear of not knowing what to say) - connected online the live event group and made some live calls with a couple of them listening, then evaluating the call with feedback after each call - got my phone number and voicemail set up - ordered and sent out my first mail piece to a targeted list - have compiled a Vacant and Ugly House list of 55 addresses by driving around my neighborhood when running errands for the family :) lol - informally put together a team of 5 bird dogs who have all sent me vacant properties they came across - putting together my 2nd, 3rd, and 4th list to mail to this month (I've mailing to high equity non-owner occupied properties in cities close to me) and because I've got my postcard designed already, all I need to do is pull the list, upload it, and bam it goes out :) - I'm going to (1) record a video of how I pull the list (2) how I clean up the export (3) upload the export to the mailing site (click2mail) and upload the postcard jpeg (4) so I can make this task a duty for my VA - I've also ordered a set of Sticky Notes to give to my bird dogs so they can simply stick and go (I'll be able to stick and go as well when I see something) - started working with another wholesaler/investor on co-wholesaling and doing deals together...we've analyzed 1 deal together unfortunately the owner (who went directly to him) wasn't super motivated and was a savvy homeowner himself ....

Like anything online and on the MLS, there's a lot of competition for these properties - and prices are going up.Otherwise, a lot of seasoned rehabbers will market for properties themselves - direct mail, postcards, bandit signs, etc - and/or they will work with a good wholesaler.

I used REI Vault successfully for a while and then just got bored of the postcard messaging, but they absolutely know what they are doing and will generate leads.

Every 1k postcards you send you should get about 15 calls / 5 serious.

It sounds like most investors who use DM state in their letters/postcards that they can pay in cash.  

My goal is to shoot them a letter or postcard to see if they were interested in the property (the property looked distressed