Real Estate Investment Via Web 2.0
After the recessionary bubble, real estate investing in a networked world pretty much accomplishes this discussion, grab your web surfboard and enjoy the ride.
In this article, I show you what’s working in real estate today and how to use the web and automation to create stimuli you can use right away to take advantage of real estate investment opportunities today. You’ll be shown how to find, finance, and market exciting properties while building large lists of buyers and sellers using the Internet to do some of the critical heavy lifting for you.
There are a variety of reasons why the following property types are all the rage, just know that Single Family Homes (SFH), Condominiums and Townhomes, Apartment Homes (Multi Units), Mobile Homes, and Parks and Vacation Homes in many markets are for sale now Some methods of finding and controlling these assets are: wholesale, rehabilitation and retail, purchase, hold and lease, lease with purchase options, assumption of existing mortgages, attachment to existing mortgages and filing inheritance, auctions, foreclosures and short operations. dirty. (Buying lists of bankruptcies, foreclosures, probate, tax liens, evictions, and divorces also work well)
Granted, it takes education, knowledge, research, monitoring, strategy, funding sources, and various alternatives to control these assets, but these are all easy pieces of the puzzle when someone like me is willing to help. The techniques of researching, locating, analyzing, negotiating, buying, selling or holding can be taught and are not that difficult to understand, it’s just a matter of getting good information and actually using it to make the deals.
Everyone knows that getting a mortgage is the number one financing method for most, but what about using second and third position notes, rehab loans, lines of credit, government stimulus programs, grants, private money, investor partners, partner and owner/seller financing or maybe just using options to control without using money to begin with, these can all be taught, so fear not credit-challenged investor, I’m here to help!
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves here, it’s nice to have financing alternatives, but you still need to find the deals and in most cases you’re better off finding them at no more than 65% of value or .65 cents on the dollar if you hope to be successful. to sell them to the next buyer for more.
Today, you have at your disposal a serious and very versatile tool: the Internet, the network allows you to market globally, capture and track potential customers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, generate virtual traffic through your online gateway, pre-qualify leads, publish properties, reports, whitepapers, articles, videos and much more. Getting a website up and running is easier than ever and creating an option box for your visitors name and email capture is also very easy, just know that these are not obstacles to your progress, everything can be outsourced from very cheap way. , again using the web to do so.
Once you have a simple website with a lead capture (lead capture) page set up, you can direct all of your lead generation activities to buyers and sellers by placing your web address (URL) on your banners, classifieds, brochures and newspaper inserts. , direct mail letters, business cards, answering machines, sale signs, etc. In fact, I have a friend who will give you 10 websites a month for $27! Websites are easy. Get one or many!
Now that you have that virtual real estate in place (your website), you need to sign up to some of the most popular and highly trafficked social websites like: Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn along with some real estate networking forums, these will lets spread the word about what you do. Backpage, Craigslist, Kijiji, and other free classifieds posting sites let you tell people what you’ve got; there are thousands of places on the web to post your message once you have a place to retrieve them as well.
Extra credit: Always carry a small pocket video recorder with you to capture properties, people, places and events, the Sony DSC-T700 is perfect for creating short videos to post on your website, Youtube, Facebook and property listing sites. , People do it. do business with people they know, like and trust, let them see you in a movie to help them build those relationships through the web.
The Internet allows you to set up systems and outsource almost everything that needs to be done, allowing you to focus on the basics of making money to find great deals and sell those deals to others for a little more than you paid, even dead leads. they are worth $450-$500 each when you know where to sell them.
Hopefully, you’ve picked up some nuggets from the “Be a Real Estate Heavyweight” series. Take action and you will succeed.