Investing In Real Estate

WTF!!! I wish I was illegal

July 31st, 2010 |

Author: joe

Originally posted by Vikram C.

Bryan, your idea of "fair and balanced" is bizarre. The very first sentence in the wikipedia link that you gave refers to the CIS as an organization that advocates immigration reduction.

Read the article in full and tell me whether or not you think it is one-sided. Let’s chat more then

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Simplify Your Craigslist Marketing With SearchTempest

July 30th, 2010 |

Author: joe

I’ve used Craigslist off and on for the past year to find buyers for properties, build a cash buyer’s list in my local area, and find motivated sellers to make offers to. The reason why I say “off and on” is because I could never find my groove and work Craigslist consistently. Mostly because I thought it was a drag to scour through all of the ads. In the past I’ve seen some tools that are supposed to make it easy to find the types of Craigslist ads you’re looking for and send follow up emails with a click of a button. I’ve never used any of those, but I recently learned of a free tool that has made working with Craigslist much more bearable. Whether you outsource this work (I do!) or do it yourself, SearchTempest is definitely worth a look.

SearchTempest.com makes your searches easy…you can:

search multiple cities at once
search by distance from a specific city or zip code
save your favorite searches

I suspect there’s more to the tool that I am yet to discover, but those perks right there are enough for me.

A little over a week ago, fellow BiggerPockets blogger Jason Hanson suggested a Craigslist marketing strategy that involved contacting absentee owners/landlords about doing lease options. He even put out a 30 day challenge encouraging people to give it a shot which was a great idea! Maybe lease options aren’t your thing, but SearchTempest can you help you with a number of other real estate investing strategies such as virtual wholesaling because you can find motivated sellers in numerous target markets with a simple click of the mouse.

One of the things you’ll want to do when using SearchTempest is take advantage of negative keywords (in fact, you can use negative keywords on Craigslist as well so this isn’t unique to SearchTempest). For example, let’s say you’re looking for deals in the Arlington area of Jacksonville, Florida but you don’t like to deal with condominiums or townhouses.

What you’re going to do is type in “Arlington -condo – townhouse – townhome” in the “What” field and of course complete the other criteria such as minimum and maximum price and bedrooms. The negative keywords are super helpful because you’ll remove a ton of ads that you don’t want to waste your time looking through.

I hope this small tip is helpful to you for your Craigslist marketing efforts! If you make it a regular habit to do your favorite searches via a tool like SearchTempest you should definitely get some solid leads and deals!

Simplify Your Craigslist Marketing With SearchTempest

Hi everyone. It’s been a while since I’ve posted, but it’s god to be back! I just had a quick question. I am a software developer looking for a good marketing person to team up with to work on some cool web/mobile/voip apps targeting investors. I got the tech skills to create the products, but I need someone better than I am to package it up and push it through the right channels.

So I ask, what forum should I post in searching for such a person?

Thanks,

Josh

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My First Deal!

July 30th, 2010 |

Author: joe

Great to hear about someone’s first investment. Getting past the first one helps in opening one’s eyes to what it takes and what the possibilities are.

Sounds like you have also found a job that can provide further education and opportunities to buy as well.

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Are you male or female between 18 and 42?

July 29th, 2010 |

Author: joe

Your rights are those you are allowed to have.

Looks like something Stalin might say. Or perhaps Mugabe.

You could do many things in business and few ever looked over your shoulder, but then there were not as many cheats and crooks then in the population, IMO either, there were many, but not at all like today where cheating someone is often seen as a strategy in business.

I think it is absolutely true that moral standards have gone down. And I think one contributing factor for that has been the increasingly regulated society that we live in. As the government takes over every aspect of our lives and creates rules to micro-manage us, these rules are slowly supplanting common-sense based moral values.

We have reached a point where it is no longer shameful to do something if it is legal, regardless of how unethical it is. And similarly, people are being shamed for violating idiotic laws that no sensible person will want to comply with.

This establishmentarianist attitude has seeped all the way down into society and many people seem to have bought into it as it is the viewpoint that dominates the mass media. I am glad to see that young people like Marc are still able to maintain their independence of thought.

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For Lease Signs an avenue to buyers?

July 29th, 2010 |

Author: joe

Great topic! I was just about to post the same exact question. I began looking up a bunch of listings "For Sale" and "For Rent" online in my area and was going to call on them to see if they’re investors interested in more deals. Then I was a little concerned because the contact info seems to always be to the listing agent, so would I just then ask the agent for the owner’s contact info and explain how I want to offer the owner more potential deals?

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