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9 Property Email Marketing Tips

So as a real estate investor you should be on plenty of people’s buyers lists if not just to see properties or to see how the market is, but also to get ideas for your own personal marketing. (I

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9 Property Email Marketing Tips

Be a Real Matchmaker!

Now that the push for real estate matchmaking software has ended again for now… There is more to being a real estate matchmaker other than getting a buyer and seller and putting them together. I

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Be a Real Matchmaker!

209 Days of Silence Ended by 209 Gurus&#

Well it’s been 209 days since my last post this one will be short the next one won’t be nor will it be in 209 more days! I guarantee it won’t even be another 209 hours before the nex

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209 Days of Silence Ended by 209 Gurus…

Howdy It’s Been A Minute!

So it has been awhile, but every time I had a post I wanted to write the flavor of the month would come out with an email that all of his large list of friends would send you also that was close to th

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Howdy It’s Been A Minute!

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Questions&

I know several people have asked me about doing deals in other markets what’s my best tip? This is a good tip for doing deals in your own  market also though… There is an old saying that

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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Questions…?!?

The Who Wants It Bad in 2011 Contest!

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by on January 3, 2011 at 7:02 pm

Everyone wants something in 2011 some of ya’ll want to finally attain success in real estate… I want to be entertained or just plain laugh.. We can indeed help each other out if you have guts or figurative “balls”… I am willing to coach you for free to reach your goals whether that is in 2 months or 20 years I am here. If you win the contest ending January 14, 2011…. What do you have to do? Let me see your Dougie I know your thinking that’s so last year well I thought it was so 20 years ago so who cares… Send a video/link to contest@thewholesaleknockoutking.com

Be more like

Teach Me How to Dougie

And not like

Dougie Fail…. Safety First!

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Rifle Season Won… Sorry

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by on December 14, 2010 at 6:09 pm

So if you’ve been wondering where I’ve been lately I’ve been hunting and closing a few deals. I will return to semi routine after I fill my last 2 tags. Miss ya’ll!  (If you are gonna make some dumb ass reply about hunting I’m just gonna say point blank don’t because if you think you have a valid reason for people to not hunt 1. you suck at life 2. you are wasting your breathe because no one is going to stop hunting especially not me and 3. write down your thoughts dip them in water freeze them over night and then stick them up your ass…)

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Change… I Don’t Think So!

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by on October 27, 2010 at 10:59 pm

So someone emailed me a question and I didn’t have an answer for it at the time, but I will answer it now. In the form of a blog post since that’s kind of what the question was about.

Dear Greg,

I very much enjoy your blog posts, great tips, and writing style and know very many others that do as well. Have you ever considered changing your style a little bit to start getting the respect you deserve? That’s the only thing I can think of as to why you have been left off of Bigger Pockets best bloggers list and Patrick Riddle’s REI Blog battle.

Thanks  and keep up the great work! (Name Withheld)

Well I thank you for the appreciation and email. To answer your question though hell no I’m not changing anything and I’m not about to start kissing anyone’s ass for “e-cred”!

Fact: Thousands of people come to this blog per month. Note the word thousands is indeed plural.

Fact: I do deals. That pays better than getting digitally sucked off by list makers.

Fact: People find this blog and keep coming back without them… So in a nutshell fuck’em!

Fact: If I sacrificed a little self expression I would blog about 4 times a year “to play by the rules” because it bores the hell out of me.

Fact: Every time I people read my posts they get to see ME not some PG award chasing bullshit.

Fact: More buyers and sellers who read my blog like me more because of it, I am a REAL person. I don’t put on some little facade pure garbage stuffy act to please a bunch of people I will never meet.

Fact: I may tone it down a bit in time, but today is not that day. My give a damn ran out a long time ago on people pleasing.

So if you are reading this and have been for awhile expect more of the same and thank you!

P.S. Be sure to like the Facebook fan page I will be doing a lot of things on there in the near future!

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Just for Funzies- An in Depth Peak Into a Home Owners Mind

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by on September 19, 2010 at 4:16 pm

Having been on the phone for about 5 hours today already with sellers has inspired me to write some observations of at what point these people lose there freaking mind! I mean honestly its not rocket science Mr. or Ms. Home Owner you have a house or houses you don’t have very many choices….

Choice one is to live in it. This is an obvious one you will be in the house until you either A stop breathing, B sell it, or C someone with the authority to tells you to take your stuff and get out!

Choice two is to let it sit there. Again another no brainer here. You walk out the door and waste money on silly things like lawn care, taxes and possibly an extra mortgage payment while not getting squat in return.

Choice three is to rent it out. This one isn’t bad you actually have a chance at making money with this one. After you take out for repairs that you constantly pay for because you keep getting the lame tenants who have kids who would be better off with litter boxes! Not to mention the taxes and insurance you are paying for at the very least. Once you get past all of that though this is a sound way to get a return on investment or inheritance whichever the case may be.

Choice four now this bad boy here is where seemingly these people start taking too many shots of either alcohol or blows to the head. They can sell the house. Now most people go to do some research before selling their home whether it be talking to a neighbor who recently (a.k.a. usually not at all recently enough for it to matter today!) or buy going online and seeing how much it’s worth and of course they give you the Zilllow value which honestly who knows which crack addict makes that craziness up but oh well. So obviously they decide whether or not to sell it straight up for fair market value in a traditional manner or to an investor for an under market discounted price. They can also sell it via a lease with an option to purchase to an investor or a non cash poor tenant buyer also known as some call them want to be home owners.

I can understand the dollar signs play into their decisions on any choice they make but honestly there really aren’t any of them that are that difficult to decide on. However to do any of them ,but let it sit though you have to tell people where the hell it is! You can call these ignorant people and they will say such ludicrous things like “I will call you 15 minutes before I show it to you with the address” , ” I can’t tell you the address I don’t want to robbed”, ” the address is only available upon a signed agreement”, ” I don’t know the address”, and my favorite ” you can have the address AFTER your check clears!”

So finally after all of this what is in the mind of a Home Owner who now wants to make money off of it….

Not a damn thing!!!

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Time To Stop Thursday!

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by on June 24, 2010 at 6:20 pm

So I just had another entertaining conversation with a seller that went so great I’m just stopping for the day. I don’t want to talk to any body I don’t know at all the rest of the day hell maybe the week after this crap.

She calls in to the nifty new 800 number (1-877-918-9559) I let my son answer since he is “helping” while he doesn’t have school and has been begging to take a call he’s been practicing for 3 weeks we’ll pick it up from there keep in mind I can hear the entire conversation on the other phone …

Child: You’ve reached the offices of the Wholesale Knockout King this is the Prince speaking (yes he takes the king thing literally he’s six so it’s okay right? haha) how may we help you?

Psycho: Um what the f$ck are you doing on the phone haven’t ya’ll heard of child labor laws…

Me (jumping in): Take it easy ma’am he is six and just answering the phone

Lunatic: What the f*ck ever…

Me: Okay ma’am how may I help you?

Ms. Potty Mouth: Yes I submitted a property to you via email I’m ______   it’s been over 2 hours (yes she really said that) and I haven’t received my offer yet.

Me: Via email? May I ask why you didn’t just use the submit a property page and if you were at my site you would have seen within 24 hours ma’am.

Ignorant Lady (using this term loosely): I didn’t pay attention to that Mr. Smart Ass, all I want to know how much you’ll give me.

Me: Hang one minute and I’ll check it out and give you a ballpark figure (and the finger through the phone). I see that you sent pictures that will help a lot with speeding this up.

Annoying Bitch: Could you hurry your f#%kin ass up and stop trying to trick me with your business man mannerisms genistures and verniculabry (you won’t see this word in Webster’s)

Me: Those are manners, gestures which you can’t see because we are on the phone, and vernacular and vocabulary are two separate words ma’am.

Stank Bitch: College n$gger you ain’t smarter than me.

…….. ( angry silence)

Me: okay my looking at the pictures and comps this isn’t anything I will be able to work with

Now Irate Piece of Trash:  WTF do you mean can’t work with it you buy houses in any condition dammit  you can’t tell me this is thirty thousand dollars like I know it is.

Me: You’re right I can’t tell you that because that would be a lie it’s worth five bucks maybe, there are no walls and half of the roof is missing, and on top of that no house has sold for more than ten thousand in the last year at least.

Upset Worthless C#$t: I hope your dick gets cancer!

Me: Talk to you hopefully never bye… click.

This is pure insanity people yet weirdly funny to me. You never know what you are gonna get when you are in real estate investing, but it always seems to be crazier for the wholesaler.

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The World Wide Wholesale K.O. King?

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by on April 9, 2010 at 6:23 pm

So I was looking over some statistics for the site which aren’t looking too bad I must say and noticed something really cool. I am officially global! Now I know this is supposed to be all about wholesaling real estate, but sometimes I just like to have a little fun! So I am… This could get crazy so you are being warned now… Still here then cool you get to hear (well read) my appreciation story for all 9 foreign countries that are visiting… and I’m going to treat you all to an American-Classic song. This is just for fun so don’t freak out and get me voted off the internet!

So first we have Great Britain which makes sense they spoke English there before everyone else not a real surprise I have readers from there but thank you.

Then Canada same thing English speakers except for Quebec (weird as all hell btw) and I do have some Canadian friends and a planned visit there this summer. Thanks to you as well.

Next up is Germany odd story about Germany my great great grandfather was a Nazi German… think about that for a second (I’m black) Yes he did catch jungle fever the second he set foot on American soil. If you don’t know what that is I have a bonus song for that answer. Thanks to all my possible relatives reading in Germany!

Now Ireland oh you know how we Americans appreciate you for your holiday that nobody has a clue what the hell it’s really for. It’s just an excuse to pinch people and maybe drink some green beer and for that I definitely thank you! I like River Dance also.

Sweden you have the hottest swimsuit models… and I’ll stop there. Thanks for reading!

Mexico a place I have been more than a few times and I know why you all try to get here… just kidding lighten up! I love your country and food keep coming back. (Can one of ya’ll tell what the hell Latino Heat is?)

Japan a huge country of tiny people and the home of a giant fire breathing lizard… wait that’s just a movie… oh well Sake is awesome! So are you for reading this blog over there too!

Last and certainly not least Russian Federation whatever that means… Anyways that’s not gonna get in the way of a good story like this one it was many many moons ago or almost 18 summers ago in non Native American terms, and there was this Russian foreign exchange student Natasha or something like that she was older than me by 6 or 7 years. One day I go to the swimming pool and then she waves me over and I ignore it for a little while because I was certain she was waving at someone else, but it really was me. She says “you’re a cute American boy” my response is “I know” (I have no game what so ever sue me) and then she flashed me I’ve liked boobs every since then big ones or small ones doesn’t really matter as long as they are even and you don’t have crazy nipples you are okay in my book. So thank you Russian Federation for having flashers come to America and for reading this blog!

So now some words to live by or perhaps not but its funny dammit!

And I didn’t forget the bonus if you are still here…

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Inspired!

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by on March 29, 2010 at 11:04 pm

"Shh... nobody knows I'm gay even dressed like this"

You know after the “shocking” revelation today by Ricky Martin (he’s gay) . I too have something to get off my chest

Thanks Ricky for giving me reason to state the damn obvious too haha!

On a serious note I shall return tomorrow in full force with an actual real estate blog…

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Imagine If You Will…

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by on March 22, 2010 at 7:49 am

Okay lets just say you run a business which isn’t that far fetched for most of you. You get this great idea like I don’t know you are gonna start flipping igloos in Alaska. In your mind this sounds great and you being the “kingpin” of this business get up and tell everyone that you are a complete dumbass by announcing your brilliant plan but your minions or coworkers are too afraid to really say you are a  retard we have more important things to be doing. So you continue on with this awesome plan to “change” the way everything runs in your business you start asking your stockholders what they think and immediately they say um wtf are you doing? As do your main competitors at your place of business even though you are supposed to be working “together” for the good of the company. Yet you still think your idea is great people will get it once they see it in action.

Then people start asking questions like how much is this gonna cost? Your answer is um I don’t know…. Next question okay who is paying for all of this to get started once again…. No clue. Now at this point a smart business person would definitely realize they don’t have a plan they just have a stupid idea, but not you! Oh no you are right screw the rest of the business we are getting this plan into action no matter what! Now right here is where your stock holders should step up and fire you just to save you from yourself, but that process takes way too long. Like in some cases can only be done every 4 years, because there isn’t a solid contract clause to say hey the wrong man got the job he isn’t who we thought he was.

Now as bad of way as this sounds to run a business it’s even worse when the President of your country is the igloo flipper… We need a new Amendment the one that states we have the right to say our bad we messed up!

You know what is sad for 200 plus years black people have talked about the “man” trying to take over everything and keep them down and the first real true signs of the “man” really showing up is none other than a black man….

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