I know you have seen those We Buy Houses signs.  I am not sure if you are using them in your business or not, but if you’re not you could be missing out on a huge amount of leads and business.  This has now become one of our biggest lead sources for finding homes to sell, AND of course for selling homes.

I don’t do your usual by a 1,000 signs and put them out a 100 at a time kind of thing anymore. That use to work, but in nicer areas of town (price ranges just at or above the median home prices) I have gotten in so much crap for doing this that it has become so ineffective.

What we do now is have someone hold our signs for us. I use to pay them by the hour and do when I am selling, but when I am trying to generate leads for buying, I pay 25% commission for anyone who holds the signs and brings me a lead that we do a deal on. This is free advertising for me, and everyone is happy and it’s a true win win.

I stumbled on to this strategy of having people hold the signs out of necessity. One time when selling a home we were putting signs up and long story short, I ended up in court with a fine and on probation. But I didn’t want to stop using signs because they produce the most calls and open house visits of any other type of marketing hands down. Ads in the paper produce the highest quality. So, mixing these two together is a potent mix.

Anyhow, so I tested hiring some kids of a lady that worked on my houses for me and paid them $8 an hour. We ended up having 93 people come to that open house and we sold it using a round robin auction format at the end of the weekend. It was awesome.

So, I kind of got off subject for a second, because I started this post to let you know about a new website that we launched. We use a lot of Internet marketing. I think I am quite good at driving sites up the search engines and getting them ranked for particular keywords.

One of our newest sites is called We Buy Houses Dallas, it takes after the idea of the signs…except in this case its a sign on the Internet, which also allows for us to have a few more words. When you hold a sign on the street corner (usually by a Walmart in the area of town that you want to by in) you shouldn’t have more than 3 lines which also should include the phone number.

Something like:

We Buy Houses
Or Take Over Payments
214-555-1111

or

Avoid
Foreclosure
214-555-1111

Something like this works great. Also the signs that we use are 3′x4′, 3′x5′, or 4′x4′. Online our site is very similar…it’s a simple message that gets them to call us. We don’t try to come off as this huge big company, just normal investors that can and will buy your house or help you sell it fast. The only purpose of the site is to get them to call us.

So, if you want to check out our new site and try one of these in your marketing strategy go here and take a peek: We Buy Houses Dallas…

…It’s still a baby site as far as traffic, but the last time I checked it was #2 in Yahoo all ready and we just started to promote it. Our keywords don’t burn up the search results, but they offer enough traffic that we feel that we can do 2-4 deals every single month from this site. That’s not so bad.

Also we are adding a few other pages and post that will help us get some other traffic for helping people to: Stop Foreclosure Dallas…

Talk to you soon,

Kenney

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Sorry everyone I have been M.I.A with The 22 Month Retirement.  No excuses, but I have had a crazy year personally, but I have not forgotten about what I have set out to do.

I have been working on houses and deals that I had before the 22 month retirement and my personal life has been a mess.

Anyway, all is good in the neighborhood and I will start to tell and show you what’s going on.  I’m really starting from scratch so, really I only have 13 months to finish eh?  That’s ok, a little hard work, a few late nights, being extremely productive, and who knows… we might just make it.

But hey, check it out, there have been some changes to the amount of money I need because me & my wife found our dream home and put an offer in on it last week.  You won’t believe me, but it’s a more…

I have no idea how you got to this site.

A friend might have referred you hear. You might have read about it in a news publication. Maybe you just stumbled upon it through a search on a search engine.

But, however you got here, you have arrived at what is the most valuable real estate investing secret on the Internet.

Here’s why: The real estate secret is a simple secret that when understood and applied, will help you to buy and sell more houses without frustration in only a couple of hours a day, with more success and spending less time on it than most investors do all month.

What is The Real Estate Investing Secret?

It’s not no money down deals.
It’s not finding partners to invest with you.
It’s not flipping homes.

It’s not owner financing deals.
It’s not long term investing or short term investing.
It’s not location.

If that’s all you think that THE Real Estate Investing Secret is, then you should be scared.

When you know the real estate secret, it won’t matter if more…

Hey, what’s up?

I wanted to let you know about this awesome place to buy cheap custom real estate signs.

It’s called BanditSigns.com!

This places seems to be phenomenal. I can’t put my full seal of approval on them yet because I haven’t personally used them, but I was referred here by a friend and I think they will do just fine.

I just couldn’t wait to share this news. Hope it might help you save some more…

This is a quick, little tip that I thought you might want to know.

As I talked about the other day in the post about seller financing, you can sell houses really quickly using owner financing – aka seller financing…

…But what most people don’t know is that you do NOT have to continue to receive those payments over a long period of time, making this strategy an extremely useful and profitable quick turn real estate investing strategy.

How?

Because once you owner finance a mortgage note, then you can sell that mortgage note for cash. Yes, you will have to sell it at a discount, usually 6-13% or so depending on a couple of factors about your buyer like: down payment received, credit of borrower, time on job, and debt to income ratio, but you WILL get cashed out within 30 days.

This allows you to owner finance houses, and then get all cash within a very short amount of time by selling your mortgage note to a more…

Flipping houses has become quite the popular real estate investing method…

…especially because of shows like property ladder, flip this house, flip this house, and others.

Now, let’s clear the air. Flipping houses means to buy a house at a discount, then to turn and sell the house quickly at a higher price (or flipping it for profit).  Flipping can really be applied to anything that you buy at a price and then turn and sell at a higher price. This is also why the term “wholesaling houses” is sometimes used.

Flipping houses now, though, has become synonymous with buying houses at a discounted rate, usually needing a substantial amount of repair, then fixing it up to look really pretty and marketable at a retail rate and selling it.

Thus, the term “fix and flip” is often used.

This is a very, very good way to make money in real estate.

7 Tips To Help You Flip Houses For Profit more…

Options, to me, have to be THE most exciting real estate investing strategy there is.

Why?

Because you can control the most beautiful and expensive properties, for only $10, and it’s an easy pitch.

“I will help you sell your house, you don’t have to take it off the market, and I will use my time, my money, and my resources if your house qualifies…”

You’re not really selling them on anything. Either they want your free services or they don’t.

Options have an extreme upside and no real downside.  Options allow even the most humble beginners to the most experienced investors the opportunities to make a lot of money, without risk, in a relatively short amount of time.

So, what is an option?

An option, is a lease option, but without the lease.  Options are an investment strategy where you have a negotiated price agreement with the seller that you can exercise your right to buy at any time during that agreement.

Why is This Powerful? more…

What is A Lease Option?

A lease option is a real estate strategy where you “lease” the property from an owner with the “option” to exercise your right to buy at any time during your lease. You don’t have to exercise that right, but you can.

The KEY to using this as an investment strategy is to make sure that your agreement allows for you to sublease the property out.

Using the Lease Option as An Investment Strategy

In this case, you won’t really be able to do deals on homes where they are more…

What is Seller Financing?

Seller financing is simply the art of getting a seller to finance a real estate deal. In this case, the seller is the bank.

They will negotiate a down payment (if any), they will allow you to make payments to them at an agreed upon rate and length of time, and you can even negotiate the interest rate (if any).

Have you noticed the theme here? Everything is negotiable and there is NO banks involved?

That means you don’t have to go through a mortgage approval process.
That means you don’t have to make large (if any) down payments.
That means you can find rates and terms that make sense for both you and the seller.

What is really cool is that the time in which you can get one of these done is a couple of hours to a couple of days. That’s it!

Yes, you could start looking for a house in the morning and by the end of the day, own it without going down to a bank and signing personally for a loan.

This is what makes owner financing so powerful, so amazing, and a strategy that you’ll need in your portfolio of offers.

How To Use Owner Financing As An Investment Strategy

The purpose of this strategy is NOT to more…

To complete the 22 month retirement challenge, I have to be productive.

I don’t have all day. Actually, I won’t work more than 4 hours a day, 4 times per week…And many days, it’s less than that.

Why?

For 2 reasons:

1. It forces me to be more productive. I know that I only have 4 hours to work… But yet, I know that there is a certain amount of work that just has to be done in order for me to be successful in this challenge.
2. I want you to feel and know that you can do this too. I want you to know that if you can find a few hours per day, that you can realize your dreams.

How To Get More Done Using The 80/20 Rule

The 80/20 rule simply means that 80% of all your results will come from 20% of your activities.

So, if you focus your efforts on 20% of the activities that produce the 80% of results, you’ll get the most results in the least amount of time.  Thus, you’ll make the most amount of money in the least amount of time.

As you grow, you can outsource work to other people and companies to help you grow even more, and all the while, doing a little less work.

Learning to be productive is Critical to the success of your business.  Learning to do the most important activities in your business firstly and consistently will ultimately determine whether or not you succeed.

What Are Your Most Important Activities? more…