TECHNIQUE #4: YOUR OWN BUSINESS CARDS You really should have your own business card. Most people who work for themselves feel they couldn’t get along without them. Self-employed people hand them out to everyone they meet. They enclose them with all their correspondence. They tack them on public bulletin boards, and they leave a little [...]
If you are interested in viewing an example of an easily created and reproduced real estate oriented flyer, I suggest you purchase my text entitled “100% Financing When Buying Real Estate.” The idea of circulating flyers is as old as print advertising itself. In fact, among the first forms of print itself were flyers and [...]
If you know what to look for, you can spot flexible property sellers as “dead ringers” from the wording in their own classified advertisements. Sometimes they come right out and practically scream it at you, as, for example: “Expatriating to England, MUST sell and move within two weeks. Best offer.” Consider this wording: “Desperate seller [...]
TECHNIQUE #1: ADVERTISING IN NEWSPAPERS Of course, everyone knows that private sellers are going to be advertising their properties in the “For Sale – Real Estate” columns of your daily paper’s classified ads. And you will look there too, but why not jump to the forefront and advertise your position first? A seller who’s in [...]
QUICKLY ACQUIRE “THE TOOLS” OF THE TRADE A good actor usually also has good props, and so you need to work as quickly as possible to acquire your own tools of the trade. You will soon find these to be quite necessary. You can’t always appear to be a seasoned real estate investor unless you [...]
LET’S BEGIN AT THE BEGINNING An artist once said, “To paint the perfect painting, first live the perfect life, and then just paint naturally.” The message here in your new found career as a real estate investor might be translated like this: “In order to make the perfect real estate investments, first live the perfect [...]
A big part of bringing your conscious efforts into your subconscious mind is organizing your time and putting together a meaningful and realistic daily/weekly/schedule. Go out and buy a professional calendar, schedule of upcoming events, appointments, meetings, and so on, so that you’re never caught in the embarrassment of discovering you’re scheduled two very different [...]
