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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…?!?

Yeah Buddy!

So I’m just gonna say something real quick like… Be careful what you ask for you just might get it is a powerful old ass saying… I’m gonna have start digitally bitch slapping p

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Yeah Buddy!

Someone Needs To Say It… Why Not Me!?

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by on November 21, 2010 at 11:18 pm

This is my open letter to the product pushers in the real estate investing game.

1. I understand affiliate marketing is a way to have another income source, but people get serious everyone damn well knows that 98.2 percent of these guys and gals  shit you are hocking (on a weekly basis seemingly) aren’t your friends! So that tired ass email format needs to go ASAP!

2. If I watch a “content” webinar it doesn’t mean that you can call me to sell some horse shit product you snuck into that hour of vague hints and concepts you talked about.

2a. Preston Ely and you other guys your call centers are extra annoying don’t call me repeatedly and don’t play a recorded message of you leaving a voicemail when I answered the damn phone you fucking morons!

3. The word miracle has nothing to do with anything, and I repeat nothing to do with anything related to a real estate investing  product!

4. I also think too many people are allowed to sell these products and you also have no business giving my email address to whoever wants to be an affiliate for your product! 14 of the same email in a 3 minute span is annoying excessive and flat out bullshit!

5. I don’t want an email from your assistant or your wife! If I barely  know who you are and I’m not really sure how I got on your list or for what… Then honestly I can say I don’t give a fuck what “Mrs. A”has to say!

P.S.

I’m not just saying something to get on your good side for my own product launch like someone else did!

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Is Social Media Over Rated?

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by on August 8, 2010 at 11:13 am

Well hello it’s been awhile but I have had major technical issues that prevented me from posting for a few weeks, but I’m back!!!

So as far as my question a lot of the big name guys are really pushing this whole social media for building your buyers list and selling properties thing, and well I have to kindly disagree to a point.

Facebook is huge which I’m sure all of you know already. A few months ago it passed Google as the most viewed website on the entire internet. (FYI the internet is a huge freaking place) Now can you find buyers on Facebook probably so, but its not in the typical manner where you take some info and shoot them properties that fit their criteria. In my opinion which matters to few people you can find people in groups who buy houses and build a relationship with them via Facebook and eventually do some deals with them, but that is probably the best you can do with it. It may actually work better with other wholesalers who just want to put out their deals to as many people as possible.  I  have actually added a few people I was Facebook friends with to my buyers list before, but they came from Open Road 3 oddly enough.

Twitter is almost in an identical boat, but with a much bigger hole in it! At least with Facebook you can go back and forth with emails, wall posts, and the chat feature, but with Twitter you have 140 characters and thats it! Which actually means you are forced to build a better relationship with someone before you do anything together. For example some of the best friends, business advisors, and partners I have came from twitter, but we built or relationships up from emailing and talking on the phone with each other.

LinkedIn may be promising once more than twelve real estate investors on the planet know how to use it properly!

Now as far as actually selling a property I have never heard of someone getting a sale off of either of them. To that effect I have never seen someone post a property and get it retweeted (at least in my stream) or commented on via Facebook.

So yes I think social media has a big place in real estate investing especially a place like Bigger Pockets , but I also don’t think it’s the  end all be all, game changer, or saving grace for your business either.

Also on a side note if anyone has some solid Memphis contacts hit me up.

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The Protest Ends!!!

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by on July 13, 2010 at 9:15 am

After my 2 week protest…. I’m  back. I went back and forth over whether or not to just quit blogging all together after the atrocity that took place but f@$k it. It doesn’t even matter it’s not like 7,897 people could be that far off base as opposed to one who is just confused.

Now on to the advice. I am all for people investing in real estate education, but in about one hour your email inbox will indeed be touched like Arnold Drummond on that creepy 2 part episode of Different Strokes… I don’t even know how much it costs just yet, but don’t just invest in something because you think it’s going to create a booming business for you while you are just floating in a pool or whatever.

It’s your money that you worked hard for or stood in front of a bus and got a check for either way be smart with it! If you are at stage one of real estate investing you can’t go to stage five overnight I don’t care what or who you buy (slavery isn’t legal) bottom line!

Side note I really enjoy SellPoint and after having found out it’s exact inner workings it makes me realize I was a little too hard on Open Road 3 in review. It actually removed probably my biggest of two complaints. So if you ever get an invitation to it you should at least check it out. Back to Sellpoint though the way it simplifies putting out properties is amazing! You post a property to 40 plus sites and then copy a piece of code and paste it on the bigger sites that are supporting it like craigslist and ebay. It removes the excuse that your piss poor deal just didn’t get seen which is why no one bought it. Yes indeed not every deal is a deal or anything close to one at times.

With all that said I’m going to watch a SIMS 2.o webinar.

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Product Reviews

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by on June 24, 2010 at 2:31 am

So one reason for the complete silence has been trying out some new things. First things first for the people with newsletter subscriptions there are some issues with Mail Chimp that are still being ironed out I haven’t forgotten your gifts.

Number 2 I used Open Road 3 extensively for the last week of my trial period. I can’t justify the minimum $97 a month expense to even Bill Gates. It is a 2 trick software and one of which you can get for free in 2 days as a special “blast cap” for the SIMS 2-3 or whichever one. Sellpoint is cool and all but like I said free in 2 days! Hammerpoint on the other hand can only be gotten in one place and is very good but with a weekend on the Home Depot website you can do the same thing yourself. Hammerpoint is an excellent feature I will give them that though. The idea of the whole system is actually a great concept but the actual execution pretty much turns out that this would be more aptly named “Dead End Road” Between all of the broken features and shoddy customer service Open Road is a pass unless you are lazy and don’t care what you do with your money.

Number 3 and product 2 is the wholesaling course from the Godfather himself and I’m not talking about James Brown or Marlon Brando. Ron Legrand’s new wholesaling course it’s absolutely phenomenal for a beginning guide to  the entire process and there are plenty of things in there for the more advanced wholesalers.  Plus to top it off you can’t beat the price trust me on that one it’s a dollar! There is a banner link over to the right where you can pick it up. I’m not really big on the whole product shilling thing, but it’s a great buy and something I actually approve of. I’m not saying it’s 100 percent perfect but then again what is? It’s also not the complete over night success course either (those don’t exist) So there it is.

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2 Weeks For Focus

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by on May 26, 2010 at 11:23 pm

So it’s been almost 2 weeks and I’ve been really trying to focus in on this task at hand and deal with some other issues that are completely bizarre. I’ve also been playing with Open Road 3 to see how useful it really is in completing this challenge successfully. So here is my quick review from having tried it out for about a week.

Open Road 3 would be great if it wasn’t broken. Yet it is broken so it’s almost down at p.o.s. level as is. It offers some features that work great like the comps report and the hammerpoint repair costs estimator. The organizational set up is actually really good as well. I can see it being used for wholesaling, short sales, buy and hold, or whatever. Now as far proposed features like power matching and linking, adding additional users, sending deals out to your buyers list its pretty much shitty. Granted I haven’t tried to use tech support or anything like that yet, but that takes forever with pretty much everything so I haven’t even bothered yet! All this being said though if/when they get all of the kinks worked out I actually see it being some great software for any real estate investor. Until then however find a trial membership if you are interested let me know I can hook up with the 30 days for 1$ trial. No I don’t get a damn thing from it either haha.

Two more quick things before I sign off for the night it is lateish ya know. One for those of you who are unaware the newsletter sign up is in the upper right hand corner it’s actually got some really good stuff written for it already but I would kinda like to send it to more than 5 people dammit j/k sort of. Two be sure to check out the newest blog on the blogroll from my friend Matt Rosen! Yes I did indeed pull an almost technical maneuver and put his name as a link.

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