Below you'll find a list of all posts from 2013
From time to time I come across some really great content about various topics that I find helpful towards my real estate investing. Some of the information helps me take action and some of it helps put my mind and thoughts back on track. If it helps me, surely it could help you in some way as well. Below is a handful of links that are really great! Atrocious Direct Mail Campaigns This forum discussion over at Bigger Pockets …
In my last post (Is wholesaling the Answer?) I talked about how I thought things needed to change because my current strategy of just wholesaling wasn’t advancing me towards my goals. This past week i come to find out that my partner would not be able to put any money into marketing for a while. This pretty much shuts down the direct mail operations completely. If you all remember, back in July, my wife lost her job so I needed …
As the year comes winding down I’ve been thinking about what direction I want to go in for 2014. Lots has changed since this time last year regarding my non real estate life that I can’t help but allow to affect my new direction. To be sure I am going to change things up because I didn’t see the progress in 2013 that I was hoping for. Is Wholesaling Real Estate Investing the Answer? To answer this question I really …
One of the reasons why my wife doesn’t mind to much my real estate investing is I try to spend as little of “Our” money as possible. I will admit it does make it tough. For sure we would have more deals if I could send out more letters, but that just isn’t going to happen. That is why it is very important to reinvest as much of your profits as possible back into your business. Not only that but …
Before I get start I want to give special thanks to Trevor Mauch, Founder of Investor Carrot, for being generous enough to give me these great deals to giveaway. He is a hell of a guy. For example, about two weeks ago he sent me an email from his personal account telling me that he was doing some random searching and found one of my websites was ranked on the second page of Google for my keyword. That’s great customer …
18 months ago my son was born and even though I was warned continuously about how it would affect my life and free time I don’t think I fully understood what that meant. In the beginning there was just chaos, lack of sleep and sheer helplessness. The idea of a schedule was just crazy, but thankfully we all settled into a daily routine which allowed me to carve out some time for real estate again. Unfortunately it was at most …
Sorry for the one day delay in announcing the winner of the Ron Mead probate course, 31 Days to Profits With Probate Investing. I was planning on announcing it last night but as I was printing out some envelopes for my probate mailers I shockingly had some printer issues (past issues with printer). This time however my printer gave me the big old “middle finger” and decided to leak black toner all over the place. The rug got the worst …
When something good happens to me I like to Pay It Forward to the people who have helped me along the way. For everyone who reads and comments on my blog or who sends me an email behind the scenes, you all inspire me to keep going. That means the world to me and I want to say THANK YOU! Read on to see why I’m choosing to give away this Probate course and also take note of the Bonus Giveaway …
Our last deal was a success in every aspect. Not only did we make $10,000 to split between us, we gained another great cash buyer. This experience continued to validate that every one of your buyers is different. Even if the first 8 buyers you talk to don’t think it’s a workable deal to them, the 9th buyer on your list might give you your full asking price. With the good also comes a potential situation that will almost certainly …
I’ll admit that I am probably the last person to jump on this bandwagon, but I recently discovered how great Podcasts are! Driving to work over the past 12 years, I was forced to listen to a combination of sports talk radio, and morning shows on Z100 or 95.5 WPLJ. Sure I could listen to political morning shows or straight news shows, but I’d rather get a root canal. I got to a point in my life where I didn’t …
Have you seen that Geico commercial with the Camel? I love that commercial! Every Wednesday either my wife or I will inevitably send a text message to the other person saying….”Guess Way Day it is?” or “Mike Mike Mike Mike….” If you haven’t seen it here is the video… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWBhP0EQ1lA Today however is not HUMP DAY, but DEAL DAY!!! That’s right folks, my partner and I closed Deal #5 and got a nice big fat check! Just like every …
I see my future in lead generation in being able to get inbound leads. What I mean by inbound leads are leads finding me by my websites or referrals, not me going out and actively marketing directly to a batch of people. It just makes so much more sense to me. There is a passive nature to it that I just love the thought of. Over the past couple months I’ve been slowly working on building my online presence. I’ve …
I’ve been getting really frustrated lately with my lack of time and resources (money!). There are a ton of things I want to get accomplished like creating a web version of SI Lead Manager, building up my online marketing for lead generation and getting someone to handle incoming phone calls and mailings. The problem is I do not have the time to do these things myself or the money to hire these things out. The only thing I can do …
I find it very frustrating trying to come up with a domain name for anything real estate investing related that isn’t already taken. I have spent days looking for a domain name only to discover that unless I wanted something resembling a sentence…. WeBuyUglyHousesInNorthernNewJerseyAreas.com …I was out of luck. I don’t like long domain names because they are just to hard to read. You get lost in all the words. Just imagine what it would look like if you …
The good news for this week is that we’ve gotten the contract signed on our deal and we’ve started to market the property. We took our first potential buyer through the house yesterday, he is interested but we will find out how interested in a day or so. We also have another buyer lined up to take a look at the place today. Here is the information for this house… Location: Bound Brook, NJ 08805 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 1 ARV: …