The Deal Finders Academy and Comments
Podcast Listeners and Future Academy Members, If you have listened to the most recent podcast, Episode 20.5 as well as Episode 20, you should know by now what the “Deal Finders Academy” is. I wanted to make a few comments about it, include the list of member benefits that Tucker mentioned in Episode 20.5 as well as make some comments on the two products, app and the status of future one-on-one consulting. As Tucker stated, there really isn’t anything of quality out there like what we will be offering in this Academy. Yes, you can go research Direct Mail Marketing information, but there isn’t anything out there that any of us would spend our time or money on that is specific to Direct Marketing for Real Estate Investing. I hope everyone knows that this is our full time job, we have 8 full-time employees, a couple part-time employees and this is all because we have mastered direct to seller marketing. Yes, us full-time folks work 40+ hours a week every week. We don’t do the so called “5 hour work week” that you always here guru’s talking about. If you’re working 5 hours a week in this business, you’re not doing any deals, end of story. Point being, this is a full time job for us and we are successful to the point where we generate great revenue, we build wonderful luxury homes, we employ a large team and most importantly are able to control our lead funnel at will. We’ve put in a lot of time refining this direct to seller marketing machine, which has gotten us to the place we are today . By now you know, whether it’s a podcast or a product, we feel that we have something better to offer you that will benefit your business as well. Due to the popularity of the Podcast and Tuckers no-nonsense, honest approach to this business, many of you have been wanting more information. Many of you have asked for one-on-one consulting to discuss specific areas of the business and how to refine it and grow. Most of you want a “Direct Mail” product since that’s where our success has come from, it’s what we preach and people want to know how we do it so effectively. Lastly, many are going direct to seller for the first time and want to know how to do it, so the “Negotiating with Sellers” product will help many of you with how to handle the calls and learn what questions to ask etc. All this information is something that you, the listener has asked for, so of course we’re trying to deliver that and in a way that cuts through all the BS and fluff. We’re currently working on the two products (Direct Mail...
“The Spokane Project”
As you probably heard in Episode 11, we have been getting a lot of requests over the past couple months to offer consulting to RE Investors who want to grow their businesses in this current market. Many are finding that its increasingly difficult to keep the same pipeline with the same profits that they were seeing in years past. Clearly we are in a sellers market where most buyers are paying much higher prices for real estate and can’t find enough inventory. As you know we have been a big advocate for marketing directly to sellers. As a result of using this tactic for many years in our own business, we have mastered the art of doing so and continually have a large inventory of deals. This isn’t hype, its just the facts. Our listeners have recognized this and know that we are actually doing what we say we’re doing, unlike many information marketers out there. Our listeners know that we are a trustworthy source of valuable information. How do they know this? Listen to the episodes and I think you too will be convinced that we know our stuff. If that isn’t enough, go check out our development company online: TTM Development website, our Houzz page, our Real Dealz TV Videos, you can Google TTM Development Company and see that we are in fact very real and doing real deals. We are very visible online and very open about what we do, unlike many “Professional House Flippers” out there. So going back to the main point of all this. We have been overwhelmed with people asking for us to consult with them on how to get their businesses jump started and flipping a ton of homes again. The information we are providing in our Podcasts is a great resource and we give away a Ton of great information that we could easily charge for, but clearly, people want more. They want personal attention that pertains precisely to their own market. This is totally understandable and I can’t blame them. Due to the fact that our primary business is house flipping, wholesaling, renovating, building, developing, etc we have a hard enough time getting our podcast episodes out each week. While we would love to help everyone, at this time it’d be very hard for us to do so. Even though we know we can make an impact in anyone’s REI business anywhere in the country. As a side note: The whole reason I started doing this podcast is because I felt like there was so much misinformation out there in the REI World that simply put, is just crap. We thought we could do better and give people real, tangible...
Check out our NEW PODCAST APP!!
We just recently launched our Real Dealz Podcast App for iPod and Android. Below is the App link for the iTunes store as well as the QR codes for both the Android and iPhone. Be sure to download the app so you never miss an episode! Links: Real Dealz Podcast iTunes App ...
The Real Dealz Podcast Has Officially Launched……as well as Real Dealz TV!
It has been a long road of becoming much more technically savvy for my team and I…..but the result is that we have finally been able to launch both The Real Dealz Podcast (Episodes 1 & 2) as well as Real Dealz TV (both of which you can listen to and watch on this website). I have wanted to launch this Podcast for a while now, but too be honest it was a lot more work than I originally thought it would be. But now that we have finally got it to this point however, I am super excited that we were able to make this happen…… both for my team of great co-workers who help me to implement all of my crazy (but often very effective) business ideas, and for you our new listeners. I wanted to create a Podcast that allows fellow investors to take a look under the hood of a highly successful Real Estate Investing business on a weekly basis…..and I wanted to provide a platform where other investors could easily ask questions, and really get to know the inner-workings of how I have grown my own Real Estate Investing business into the success that it is today. The Real Dealz Podcast will allow our listeners to follow along with what my team and I are doing right now….in this market….to generate tons of hugely profitable deals and dominate all of our local competition. The business of house flipping and real estate investing has changed a lot over the past few years, and so have the investing techniques that will make you consistently large profits…..so I feel its important to only take investing advise from those who know how to find deals and make big money right now……and not in years past! The hope is that by following along with exactly how we are making big things happen in our market of Portland Oregon here now in 2014……you can take some of the techniques and strategies that I will be discussing and put them to work in your own REI business! I can assure you that there is nothing else out there that will provide fellow investors with as much valuable, timely, usable and best of all FREE Real Estate investing information as The Real Dealz Podcast! In addition to the Podcast we have also just released the first 3 episodes of Real Dealz TV that you can watch on this site! Since I actually run a “real” Real Estate Investing business I wanted to allow our listeners to also “see” some of our current projects and get a better idea of how we make...
Using direct mail to generate consistent motivated seller leads
Posted By Tucker Merrihew on Dec 15, 2013 | 19 comments It’s no secret to those of us who have been in the Real Estate Investing game for any length of time, that the market has changed a lot over the past 12-18 months. One of the biggest changes has been the increased challenge for Real Estate Investors to find quality investment grade inventory to flip! Back a few years ago deal were plentiful since there were tons of REO’s (Bank Foreclosures) on the RMLS to bid on, HUD homes (FHA Foreclosures) that you could simply place bids online for, and lastly foreclosure auctions that were bursting at the seams with screaming deals that could be had for $1 over the opening bid amount…….but that is not the case anymore! Foreclosure inventory has started to dry up, and those foreclosure that even resemble a possible deal are being chased down by just about every investor in your respective market and the prices are being bid up to ridiculous amounts. So what does this mean to Real Estate Investors who want to continue to have great success in 2014 and beyond…..? Well the answer is learning how to generate your own flip inventory, and there are a number of different ways that you can do that. In my opinion however, there is one strategy that is far superior to the rest both in terms of costs and results…….and that strategy is Direct Mail! You see, direct mail is a strategy that works in every market if done properly. So I believe this is the most important marketing strategy that real estate investors should not only learn about, but also be putting to work in their business. So without any further introduction lets jump into today’s blog post: Using direct mail to generate consistent motivated seller leads for your real estate investing business! Direct Mail vs. Other Methods A few years back I was buying most of the houses that my company flipped through the local foreclosure auctions — relationships that I had made with REO listing agents in my area, and other fixer type listings off the MLS. During the time period of 2008 to around 2011, these strategies were producing plenty of discounted houses for my company to buy and flip. But I knew that those days would be numbered as the economy started to improve, and foreclosure inventory began to work its way through the system and eventually to dry up. Fast forward to today and buying deals at the local foreclosure auctions are few and far between due to all of the increased competition on any given...
HOW TO START A HOUSE FLIPPING BUSINESS: PART 3 OF 3!
We have had a great response so far with the previous two articles that lay out the steps necessary to build a house flipping business from the ground up. So in order to raise the bar even higher in the third and final part of this series, I am going to be giving away TONS of extremely valuable and FREE information on how to build your own successful house flipping business! In the last article I gave you a couple strategies that you could put to work in order to generate leads for your real estate business. Although those lead sources (probates and driving for dollars) are great and everyone should be taking advantage of them, you always need to be looking to grow your business and your marketing reach! The key to building your marketing machine is to become very good at one niche and then move onto the next (while continuing to use and master the previous niche’s). So in this article I am going to go through the next steps you need to take in order to become the player in your market that everyone aspires to be. So now that you have started to implement a couple marketing campaigns on a consistent basis (probates and driving for dollars), now its time to take it up a notch and start to increase the number of marketing campaigns you are running at any given time. To help you accomplish this my suggestions would be to do one of two things that will help you grow your business: The first would be to hire a marketing manager to help keep your direct mail consistent, organized and effective: Or the alternative would be to outsource all the mailings along with the lead follow up process. This would entail using a direct mail service provider to send out all of your yellow letters, postcards, ect. and then hire a virtual assistant to process all of the leads and follow up with the potential motivated sellers that contact you. I personally don’t care to use virtual assistants because I have a physical office space that my team and I work out of…..that and I am all about building my business with long term people who can actually go out and view properties and make offers for me. There is something to be said for having your team working along side you every day as apposed to half way around the world (which apparently doesn’t sell so GURUS fail to make this point). If however hiring virtual assistants works better for your current situation then go for it……its absolutely better to get...
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