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How Real Estate Investing Helps Society One question I was hung up on when I first started investing had to do with whether real estate investing was really a help to society. Over time I’ve realized that the answer to that question is – It depends. Investors definitely are not a help to society if […]

Since my update last week, we have landed another deal in Hammond, IN. The deal we landed is actually very interesting. We had sent letters to this seller last month and he called us to see how much we would offer. Turns out he is an investor and wants to sell for full market value […]

An Update on Jacksonville As expected, our Jacksonville equity list has not performed as well as the other lists that we are mailing to.  As compared to the other mailers, the Jacksonville equity list response rate is nearly 1% worse than our best list.  So far, we’ve mailed over 20,000 pieces of mail to the […]

I was traveling last week and couldn’t take out time to write a blog so this entry is as of Thursday, May 10, 2018 Below is the summary of my leads so far: I have had total of 104 leads come in these past 5 weeks. I have closed on 3 properties and have 4 […]

This post will be brief. As mentioned on a previous post an investor I follow had a podcast about direct mail and the poor results he was receiving. He had facts figures and all that good stuff. Normally I would say this guy has way more experience than I have and he has sent so much […]

On a warm summer afternoon in 2017, I found myself in the left seat of a cherry red Robinson R44 Raven II helicopter, 350 feet above moderately dense timber country in the beautiful Mission Valley of Northwest Montana. The only problem was, we were doing out-of-control clockwise spins and the treetops were coming closer. If […]

Real estate success will not come overnight With tax season being over, there has been a lot of additional time to focus on real estate. It’s currently eighty degrees here in Minnesota, a far cry from the blizzard conditions we had two weeks ago, so things are definitely looking up. As summer gets closer, work […]

Direct Mail campaign Week 3 results Below are my results after 3 weeks of mailing: In total I have 75 leads and 19 of those are from other sources like referrals or prior mailings but since the last 3 weeks I have been tracking my results, I have received 56 leads from my 4 separate […]

3 Lessons Learned on Direct Mail Marketing The business that we are in (marketing to home owners and buying houses) is not inherently difficult.  There is no degree required, license or training needed to buy a house, although it may come in handy at times!  People all over the country do it on a daily […]