Hi Guys,I'm just curious to see if anyone has had luck on getting listings by sending postcards or letter to absentee owners and what are the key points of setting it up.Thanks!

The best deals are the ones you find/create yourself, but that means you have to put the time and work in to find/create them.Start with the neighborhoods around your house - do "driving for dollars" looking for vacant or derelict properties and send a letter or postcard to the owners offering to buy (to find the owners use RIPropInfo.com and the Assessor link for the town, then look the property up).

Hey guys, I'm just starting my first direct mail campaign and sent out my first batch of 1,000 oversized postcards to absentee owners within my target zip codes.

I took a deeper dive, and listened to may of the podcast episodes that Sean had put out, as well as the BP podcast episodes where the various methods of wholesalers were revealed in interview after interview.I found many similarities among what I'd read and heard on the podcasts:Direct Mail is a very popular way to goYou'll likely need to spend thousands in marketing dollars (most likely using yellow letters and postcards) to get the deals coming in to youOnce you get one deal, the rest snowballCommit to one marketing strategy, bandit signs may work but they tend to be the least favored here on BP (due to their "uglying up a neighborhood" and the fact that many times they are illegal and get removed)So I get the general gist of this but the questions I still have unanswered are:How does one know what is the right legal language to put on contracts?  

I may send a postcard first, then a yellow letter hand addressed, then a larger postcard, then a professional letter, etc.

In the past month I've mailed out a little over 500 direct mailings via post card.

If one postcard mailing costs you .40 cents each including postage, but only has a 1% response ratio, it is not as good a deal as one that may cost 3-4 times the price, but has a 20% response ratio.

I have tried a couple of approaches but can't seem to nail the correct message.I based my design and message on a sample postcard I posted here in BP that had good success as per the user.Below is the landing page screenshot.

I know that bulk mailing is an option, but what I want to be able to do is track who responds by address to my postcard.

Is there website to find the vacant homes in the area you want, create your post card, and send it in one?