Review of last weeks goals Ask my Realtor what I need to make an offer on a house (proof of funds,etc..) – DONE Email some of the wholesalers I know and see if they are selling any properties – DONE Get a copy of the Daily Record and hunt down the legal section to find probates – FAILED Buy the list of out of state owners for Hanover – DONE Add 10 more Links to Rei-Links.com – DONE Get Pre …
Feeling Dumb
One of the biggest obstacles I’m finding out now that I’m starting to be involved in the deals is feeling dumb. Nobody likes to feel dumb or feel like they don’t have the answers. As a beginner I run into a lot of questions from other investors or even sellers that I can’t answer. The good thing is that I’m of the mind set now that I don’t care about that, I know I’m new and have a lot to …
Follow up
The Call This guy called 3 times with in a 24 hour period. The first two calls I missed while I was at work on tuesday, but he called again wednesday around lunch so I picked up. I explained what I did and then asked if I could call him back later that night at 7:30. Bill Guerra says this establishes trust because you follow through and now he has confidense in what you say. The details… His house is …
action
Just talked to a seller who called me from my mailings and in the process of lining up a buyer (actually a buyers buyer) with a seller. Things are slowly happening, will expound (ooo big word!) on it tomorrow.
Explained
I said in last nights post that I would explain how a reached a few of my goals last week. So here it is.. Organizing my mailings I decided to go back to click2mail as I figured out how to send letters. So I setup a letter template and I’m all set there. As to how I’m going to keep track of when I should mail out what, I came up with a modified bucket strategy. It has to do …
Goals – Wk 4/13 to 4/19
Last Weeks Goals Get organizer that can hold Letter Mailers – Done Setup Click2Mail to send out postcards to match my mailer schedule – Done Get More Stamps – Done Modify Mailer to include info about “Right of First Refusal” – Done Investigate adding a referral P.S. in my letters and postcards for information about other houses needing to be sold. – Done Add 20 Links to my REI-Links.com website – Done I will elaborate on each item tomorrow. This …
Flying by!!
Where does the week go? it’s already Wednesday for crying out loud! Today is the day I review my weekly goals to see if I’m on track. So let’s see how I’m doing. 1) Get Organizer that can hold Letter Mailers. No – I’m going to take a look in Staples tomorrow to see about this. 2) Setup Click2Mail to send out postcards to match my mailer schedule that I outlined in a previous post No – Did not do …
Target Hanover
As you can see that I’ve decided to start posting my weekly goals on Sunday nights. These are things I’m going to do as well as my weekly scheduled stuff. They are going to be small items, that I can accomplish relatively easily. I believe I’m really starting to understand goal setting and how to properly set them up so you succeed. Now lets see if I’m successful. Goals I set for this past weekend Review, analyze and Rework my …
Goals for Week 4/6 to 4/12
– Get organizer that can hold Letter Mailers– Setup Click2Mail to send out postcards to match my mailer schedule that I outlined in a previous post– Get More Stamps– Modify Mailer to include info about “Right of First Refusal”– Investigate adding a referral P.S. in my letters and postcards for information about other houses needing to be sold.– Add 20 Links to my REI-Links.com website
Weekend Plans
Nothing new over the past two days except for working on my REI Links webpage a little bit. If you have the time go check it out and give me some feedback. It’s not nearly done and on only has 3 links so far, but the format is there and you can get a good idea of where i’m going with it. Rei-Links.com Weekend Plans This weekend I’m going to do the following… Review, analyze and Rework my goals some. …
Uuuuu Almost!
Yesterday I had one of the people on my buyers list say he had someone who was “Really Interested” in a house I was shopping for another wholesaler I know. But wouldn’t you know it, they just accepted an offer on the house. SO CLOSE! There’s another house coming up in whippany that I’m going to pimp to my ever growing buyers list, maybe this time!The craigslist ads that I’ve been posting to find buyers has been working pretty good. …
2 years!
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 …
No Paper Cuts!
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 …
Another buyer
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 …
3 weeks in a row
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 …