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Backstory: My wife and I were walking the neighborhood and writing down addresses of homes that we want to start mailing to when we came across a home that was boarded up. We talked to the neighbor and she told us tha...
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Hello Everyone!
Where does one start to look for deals before they hit the MLS? I'm looking to try a different approach to find those sweet deals. Let me know how you search and purchase your properties. Any advice w...
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What is working for getting responses from distressed property owners? Is driving neighborhoods and mailing the sellers a good route right now? Do bandit signs actually get a response ever? Thank you in advance for an...
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I am marketing for my first deal in the zip code that I live in and looking for advice on my first direct mail. It's a fairly affluent area and I feel like the typical marketing messages that real estate investors bro...
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Hello Everyone. I currently have a STR, for which I would like to create a direct booking site. What are the pros and cons and if y'all can share with me some recommendations. Thanks in advance.
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So I listened to the @Michael Quarles podcast on marketing and i figured I can do about $200 in marketing a month based on my current salary. I, like most, have more knowledge on wholesaling than on buy and hold deals...
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I work wholesale in central Indiana and have a full sales team. I am trying to get more direct to seller leads as most my leads come from other wholesalers who don't have buyers like us. I am looking into REVA Global ...
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What are some of your guy's tactics to get private money?My only tactic so far is to ask relatives if they got some spare change lol. Of course, I want the benefit them as well.
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I responded to a recent blog post from a mortgage broker urging his clients to lock rates in now. This is a common refrain from brokers that don't want clients to wait for rates to possibly decrease. Rates could obv...
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Hello! I hope everyone is staying safe out there during these unprecedented times.I wanted to ask the community, a rough ball park figure on what it would cost to build an ADU of let's say 500 sq. ft. with one bathroo...