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: …
Remember back to this post (neighbor wanted to the house) a few weeks ago? Turns out he could not come up with the money to purchase the house for his rehab ideas. The owner called my partner last week and said… …Send over the contract, I will sign it… I’m pretty stoked about this deal because we haven’t had one in quite a long time. So far the lawyer for the seller has reviewed the contract and only made some minor …
In my new found quest to figure out how to get real estate leads off the web, I went a little commando at work the other day and listened to an SEO webinar on my sell phone using the GotoMeeting app. Besides draining my cell phone battery, it worked out great. Trevor Mauch hosted the webinar f or the people who purchased his InvestorCarrot website packages. I learned a few things I didn’t know and that will definitely help me …
A couple of years ago I create a website to try and attract people who are looking up probate related topics in New Jersey. The thinking was that people searching for New Jersey Probate on Google where people going through the probate process and could possibly have a property that they need to sell. I basically wrote about 20 articles related to probate, setup an opt-in box for a probate guide and left it as is. I never checked the site …
Back in January I posted about only being able to stick with my real estate marketing budget until August. I had to draw the line in the sand some where or I’d keep repeating the same thing over and over and just hoping it would start working. Isn’t that the definition of crazy? So my partner and I have one month to get a deal done to extend my marketing to the end of the year or direct mail as …