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Benefits of List Stacking

Benefits of List Stacking in Real Estate Investing

If  you’re looking to invest in real estate, one of the key things to do is to pull a list of absentee owners.

Absentee owners are people who own properties but they don’t live in them. This list is a great way to find motivated sellers who are ready to sell their property quickly. But what do you do with this list once you have it?

One of real estate investors’ biggest mistakes is not utilizing a method called “list stacking.” 

List stacking is a way to take all of the different marketing lists that you have and put them into a system that only allows for one unique property to show up once. In other words, if you have one property that appears on your absentee list, probate list, pre-foreclosure list, and driving for dollars list, you won’t send four mailers to that one property owner.

List stacking is important because it allows you to clean up your data and make your list more targeted. If you were to send the same mailer to the same person for the same property four times, it would make you look unprofessional and like you don’t know what you’re doing. Therefore, it’s important to make sure that you’re not sending the same mailer or postcard to the same person multiple times.

List stacking can also help you save money. If you have a limited marketing budget, you want to make sure that you’re spending your money wisely. If you have a limited budget of, say, $1,500, you want to make sure that you’re reaching out to the people who are the most motivated to sell their property. You don’t want to waste your money sending mailers to people who are only on one list. Instead, you want to focus on the people who appear on multiple lists, as they are more likely to be motivated to sell.

List stacking is a great way to make your real estate investing more targeted and efficient. It allows you to clean up your data, save money, and focus on the people who are the most motivated to sell their property. When you’re investing in real estate, it’s important to use all of the tools at your disposal, and list stacking is one of the most important tools you can use. So, if you’re looking to invest in real estate, make sure that you’re using list stacking to get the most out of your marketing lists.

For a brief overview about how to maximize list stacking, check this video.

Real Estate Business Lead Flow from Start to Finish

Real Estate Business Lead Flow from Start to Finish

Learn how to use Sharad Mehta’s tried-and-true lead flow for maximizing your conversions and re-generating leads in your real estate business. In this video, he explains his method using his real estate software, REsimpli.

At the outset, he lists his marketing venues. In this case, PPC and SEO have their own inbound bucket, and Direct Mail, SMS, and Cold Calling have their own outbound bucket.

detailed flow chart about lead flow

From there, these leads are categorized as “contacted” or “uncontacted”. Outbound marketing efforts can fall into either of the two, whereas PPC/SEO always fall under the “uncontacted” category, as they are incoming and online only.

lead generation information

These show up in similar categories in the REsimpli platform itself, making it easier to conceptualize the different stages of the lead generation process. The leads are then qualified, either by yourself, a team member, or your lead manager. These leads are either unqualified or qualified depending on criteria you can filter and set internally and on REsimpli.

If the lead is officially Qualified, REsimpli allows you to quickly and easily schedule an appointment using the online scheduler function. This is marked on your flow as Appointment Set.

If the lead is officially Unqualified, there’s two options: mark it as Unqualified then consider it a Dead Lead, or mark it as an Agent Referral. This can be tagged directly in REsimpli as a Warm Lead, thereby sending it to the agent and creating a task for your team to follow up. If the lead is marked as a Dead Lead, it is removed from the flow entirely.

When a lead is marked as Appointment Set, there are two possible options: the appointment is fulfilled or the appointment is not fulfilled. If the appointment is not fulfilled, REsimpli makes it simple and quick to set the lead up with a Drip Campaign specifically tailored for No Shows.

resimpli software interface with popup window for auto follow-ups

You can set up various automatic drip campaigns, including “missed call,” “no show,” and others. From there, you can further categorize the lead so far as scheduling tasks for your team to follow up, etc.

If the appointment is fulfilled, and the prospect is still deemed acceptable, you can then mark the lead in the Under Contract category which will allow you to fill out several criteria, including closing price, negotiation terms, and date.

resimpli software interface with window popup for lead status under contract

If the deal is still under negotiation, you can easily mark the lead as Offer Made which will then allow you to fill out similar criteria, such as amount of offer, date of offer, and set automatic tasks like follow up and reminders.

resimpli software interface with window popup for lead status offers made

If it’s a wholesale deal, the lead would be sent to your cash buyer and moved to Assigned to Buyer. Provided the criteria are set and met, the deal follows through as Sold. If the contract is sent to renegotiation, the sale flow restarts again either as Offer Made, Under Contract, or Dead Lead.

The best part about this deal flow is it’s manageable with or without a real estate software. Sharad, as an active real estate investor, formatted REsimpli’s sorting features after his own workflow with others’ real estate business in mind. Watch more in the video below:

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