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Table of Contents
The basics .................................................................................................................................. 5
Wholesaling 101 ...................................................................................................................... 5
Here is the process in a nutshell .......................................................................................... 5
Important details about the example above ......................................................................... 5
Chapter 1 - Goal setting ............................................................................................................. 7
Chapter 2 Select your market ................................................................................................ 10
Buyer research ...................................................................................................................... 11
ACTION ITEM: Contact Aaron Polling to set up a Listsource.com account ....................... 12
ACTION ITEM: Get count of buyers in your county ........................................................... 13
How many buyers should you have at a minimum?........................................................... 20
Seller research ...................................................................................................................... 20
ACTION: Use Listsource.com to determine the number of absentee owners in that market.
........................................................................................................................................... 21
Summary of initial research ................................................................................................... 25
Thing to watch out for ............................................................................................................ 25
Chapter 3 - Set up your systems .............................................................................................. 27
Phone system ....................................................................................................................... 28
ACTION ITEM: Sign up for an Adtrakker account ............................................................. 29
Data Service provider ............................................................................................................ 30
Listsource.com ................................................................................................................... 31
Realquest.com ................................................................................................................... 31
................................................................................................. 32
Multiple Listing Service Access .......................................................................................... 33
Comps Service Provider ....................................................................................................... 34
Realquest.com ................................................................................................................... 34
SiteXData.com ................................................................................................................... 35
Multiple Listing Service ...................................................................................................... 36
Trulia.com .......................................................................................................................... 37
ACTION ITEM: Decide on which comps service provider you will use and then sign up with
them. .................................................................................................................................. 38
ACTION ITEM: Decide where you will get your buyer and seller leads from ..................... 38
Post Office Box ..................................................................................................................... 39
Chapter 4- Find the buyers ....................................................................................................... 40
Download your buyer leads ................................................................................................... 41
Format The Buyers List ......................................................................................................... 49
Chapter 5- Find the sellers ....................................................................................................... 60
Finding the best zips to mail for sellers ................................................................................. 61
Using a Data Pilot to seek out buyers ................................................................................ 61
The surprising results of where we should start first .......................................................... 65
Download Your Seller Lists ................................................................................................... 66
Advanced Tip No Sale Date Sellers ................................................................................... 73
Format The Seller List ........................................................................................................... 75
Chapter 6 - Create Lead Funnel ............................................................................................... 95
24hour Seller Message ......................................................................................................... 96
Recording Main Greeting via Phone .................................................................................. 96
Recording Main Greeting via Computer ............................................................................. 98
Recording Seller Greeting via Phone & Computer........................................................ 102
Email delivery of messages ............................................................................................. 105
Seller Marketing Funnel ...................................................................................................... 106
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Click2mail.com Creating Your Account ......................................................................... 106
Click2mail.com Uploading Your Seller List ................................................................... 108
Click2mail.com Create your Seller Postcard ................................................................. 113
Using Mail Merge Fields .................................................................................................. 123
Buyer Marketing Funnel ...................................................................................................... 131
Buyer Website.................................................................................................................. 131
.................................................................................. 133
Click2mail.com Creating Your Buyer Postcard With Website ....................................... 133
The basics
Wholesaling 101
In this system we are using the strategy of wholesaling to successfully find and flip deals
without using our own cash or credit.
Now the above is a summary of the steps and the details will be covered in this guide.
However, there are a few things that I want to make sure that you understand from the above
example
3. When you initially made the offer you placed on the contract a deposit of only
$100.00. You could delay putting this deposit with the title / escrow company until
deposit
4. You never closed on the property. By that I mean you never took actual legal
ownership of the property by taking out a loan or using your own cash or credit.
5. The investor buyer is the one that actually brings the money to the closing and pays
for the deal.. including your fee.
This by far is the fastest and easiest way to make money in real estate as a beginning investor.
Yes there are many ways to make money as a real estate investor but by far this strategy is
my #1 recommend strategy.
One of the biggest problems I see with new real estate investors is that they have unrealistic
expectations of how much money they will make doing this business.
For example, if you have never spoken with sellers or buyers, never ran comps, or done
anything with regards to real estate investing then the likelihood of you making $20,000-
$50,000 a month in the first 30 days in unrealistic.
Instead, I would focus on the implementation of the different steps in the process.
This is because when you focus on the smaller individual steps you will find it easier to
continue to make progress and move toward the goal of doing your first deal.
If you look at the chart you will notice that there are four distinct phases to implement for virtual
wholesaling.
1. Foundation
2. Lead generation
3. Deal Extraction
4. Monetize and scale
How long it takes you to complete each step depends on your experience level and your
exposure to some of the concepts and tools that each step will require.
If you want to be really aggressive you can get each step completed within a week.
However, a more realistic approach would be to take two weeks for each section of the
process so that you can have enough time to make sure that things get done right and that you
are not under such tremendous pressure.
The benefit with Virtual Wholesaling is that you can do this business anywhere from anywhere.
So you have two options, the first option is to work your local market and the second option is
for you to work a market virtually.
My recommendation is always to stay in your local market. The reason for this is that
everything is going to be much simpler for you and there are going to be a lot less variables to
deal with.
However, your market selection will be dictated by being able to find adequate buyer and seller
leads in that particular market.
Buyer research
The type of buyer that we target is an absentee owner that has recently purchased a property
in the last 3 to 6 months in your local market.
They usually attend real estate investment meetings, call for by owner ads in the newspaper,
put up bandit signs looking for buyers, and other various types of buyer lead generation.
Although these types of lead generation efforts can work, you never know the type of buyer or
person that you are speaking with over the phone.
For example, you could place an ad on craigslist.com looking for buyers of handyman
money, have they purchased the property before, do they have cash or other funds to
purchase a property quickly.
Many of these buyers can be tire kickers and thus you are going to be wasting your time in
speaking with them.
Instead my recommended method will deliver to you buyers that have recently purchased a
property. These are not tire kickers. These are people that have taken money out of their bank
account and closed
deals.
You see it d
you have. I would rather you have 10 really good buyers instead of 100 tire kickers.
To find these buyers we are going to be using theb public records of whatever market or
county you are looking to start with.
Listsource.com
Listsource.com is a national data provider that you can access information for buyers and
sellers all across the USA.
Instead please contact my representative there so that they can set you up with a special
discounted account
IMPORTANT: you are not going to be purchasing records for buyers at this time. All we are
doing is you simply getting a count so that we can know if the market that we selected is the
right market for us or not.
And these
As you are making these changes you will see the number of available seller records change
here on the left side
Finally under the property tab again select the LAST MARKET SALE DATE.
In this example
Keep in mind that some counties will have a lot more (like los angeles California), while others
will have smaller numbers
Seller research
Next, we want to make sure that we have enough sellers to work with in this given market.
They could be someone that is in the same area as the property that they own or they could
also live out of state.
One of the benefits of dealing with this type of seller is that most investors are not targeting
them or you have very little competition. In addition to this, there are usually a large number of
these types of
deals but also scale and do multiple deals per month with this lead source.
simply your laptop and an Internet connection. So there is a tremendous flexibility and actions
available when you deal with this particular type of seller.
Rather than start the search over again in Listsource.com, we are simply going to modify it
slightly
You can do this by simply clicking on the X on the left hand column
And when you do this, you should see the number change on the top to reflect additional seller
records
The number you see here is the total number of absentee owners in that county.
Next we will add the additional criteria of sale date but this time targeting properties that have
been owned for greater than 10 years
When I did this the numbers on the left changed to reflect the seller counts
There are over 200 absentee buyers over the last 6 months
There are over 11,000 absentee sellers that have owned their property
There is a high confidence level that we have enough buyers and sellers to work with to
do this market
If you do the search for the seller records with the sale dates as indicated above and
them to query their database with the information that I have specified above to see if
they could give you better counts
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If the above is true (low seller counts) and you are not able to get additional information
market.