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This past weekend was dedicated to my wife as we were celebrating our 2 year anniversary! Yea us! I love my wife and hopefully she’ll still love me while I’m trying to make our lives better. hehe So with the above being said, All I did this past weekend was get more mailers ready to print out. I’ve got a big batch going out today (when I pick up stamps) on the way home. I’ve also thought of a plan …

Let me tell you, I don’t know how anyone can consistently mail out letters to 100’s of people per week unless they have help or some fancy machine that stuffs for you. Because I wanted to have the envelopes hand addressed, I created, addressed, folded, stuffed, sealed and stamped 55 mailers last night. 55 doesn’t sound like a lot but it gave me a good feel for how much time it really takes to do it. I am happy to …

Got another potential buyer looking at the house I’m shopping for Jarred the wholesaler. I wasn’t sure I should mention up front that I’m not the person who got the house under contract, so I didn’t. But the questioning quickly got to the point where I had to let him know I was shopping the deal for another person. He said he may have other buyers who may be interested in it…man where does the chain stop? How would one …

I was running along good for a two months with getting my pre-foreclosure leads off the public records website until the last 3 weeks. The first Sunday I thought maybe it was a system problem. The second Sunday I figured it was some more maintenance going on with the site. Now for the third Sunday in a row the site was down so I’m going to change my schedule around and adapt. Monday9 to 10pm: Respond to Ads on Craigslist …

Man what a great 4 day weekend. Outside of the 12 hours of driving I logged (well my wife did at least half) I had a really good weekend. I’m sure I’ll forget some stuff to tell you guys, so I’ll post again tomorrow with anything I missed. Steve Cook’s Wealth Explosion Let me first off say I was expecting a lot out of this boot camp. I’ve heard so many good things about them that how could I not? …

Last week it was stamps, now this week I don’t have enough envelopes to send my mailers. I’ll be running out of ink or paper next week for sure! Sometimes I don’t know where my head is at. Oh here is a stupid question for anyone reading…Has it been your experience that the length of a pre-foreclosure letter makes a difference? I’ve got a 3-4 pager and then a simpler one pager (Thanks Jodi). I’m going to rotate using them …

I just wanted to say that I started reading the 4 Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferris. Just from the first chapter I can tell he things a lot like me. I’ve heard this book was great and had actually bought it over the summer but never go around to reading it until now. What the heck was I waiting for?? here is the link to his sight… 4 Hour Work Week

Now it’s two Sunday’s in a row that the public records site has been down. That kind of puts a kink in my routine for sure! Both times it seems to pop back up on monday morning, but seriously I hope that doesn’t become the norm! The letters from last week went out on Friday (finally got stamps) so we will see how these work. I bet they will work better, how could you not read a hand addressed envelope? …

Man this week is taking forever! The only good thing is my wife is working 11am to 7pm instead of 3pm to 11pm, so I’ll get to see here much more tonight and tomorrow. I’ve gotten quite a few responses back from people I’ve emailed to off of craigslist. I think I’ve actually added 2 people to my buyers list. I know…I’m shocked too!! Time to start putting together a spreadsheet. I’ve yet to send out my letters as I …

Day lights savings screwed me up a bit looking at open houses. I knew that was going to happen too! One of the open houses was a wholesaler guy’s I’ve met open house. He and his partner were having this one day open house blowout. Apparently they got an agreement with the owner that they would hold this blowout and get as many people in the house as they could and see if they could sell it. If they couldn’t …

Alright, like I said I was going to take some time on Saturday and develop some new goals. I found that I had the hardest time setting goals for 6 months and beyond. I mean I know I want to become a full service wholesaler and I want to be able to quit my job in 5 years and invest full time, but I don’t know what kind of goals I should set for time frames like 3 months or …

This goal stuff is tough! I was reviewing my goals for the last two months and I realized that I didn’t really meet any of them. This is terrible and unacceptable! My goals are listed below with a brief explanation.. Goal #1: Locate Local BanksNot even close, as far as I got with this is searching online for banks with only a few branches in my area or that had the name community in it. Goal #2: Refer a Short …

Craigslist I got a call from one of the investors I had found on craigslist this morning. Of course I missed the call, but he left a message. He said his name was Jarred and he sounded like the guy who runs the meetups we have which would be cool. I’ll have to ask him when I call him back tonight. He wanted to talk to me about bird dogging for him. Emailing the Investor ads seems to be a …

I’ve been sending out postcards for about 3 months now. I would say I’ve sent out over 500 and my response rate has probably been .8%. They say if you are getting 3% that is good, so I’m 2.2% off of that mark. Here is my post card that I’ve been sending out… …Does anyone have any suggestions on how I could improve the message? Also does anyone else have any examples of postcards that have proven to work for …