According to Zillow’s latest iBuyer report, homeowners sold 27,244 homes worth a total of $10.6 billion via an iBuying service in Q3 2021. This report analyzed four of the largest iBuyers at the time (RIP Zillow Offers) and showed that iBuyer market share nearly doubled from the previous quarter. Another interesting tidbit from Zillow’s report is the fact that iBuyers paid more for homes in Q3 than in any previous quarter. The median sale price paid by iBuyers in Q3 was $376,000—13.9% more than the median U.S. sale price of $329,970. When iBuyers are willing to pay prices that small-time inves ..read more

iBuyers have HUGE advertising budgets and are paying big bucks to outcompete local investors. They’re doing everything they can to squeeze out the small guys. Still, companies like Opendoor and Offerpad continue to lose deals to people like you. Why? It’s because local investors have the home-field advantage! Sellers want to work with local buyers Most homeowners are more comfortable working with local buyers than with a faceless corporation, which is why you should leverage the home-field advantage whenever possible. Here’s how: Tailor your blogs and website copy to fit th ..read more

Do you have a beautiful LeadPropeller website that’s bringing in boatloads of high-quality seller leads? Do you also have a favorite real estate CRM that would be perfect for managing these leads—if there was a way to automatically, instantly import them? Good news: There is an easy way to connect your LeadPropeller website to the CRM of your choosing. In this post, we’ll explain (in simple terms) how to ensure form submissions are seamlessly sent to your CRM via LeadPropeller’s new webhook integration. Already have a real estate CRM? No problem! As your LeadPropeller website brings in more an ..read more

There’s a fast, free way to generate more leads with your LeadPropeller website. And if you already have a Facebook Page for your investing business (you really should have one), there’s no reason not to implement one of the best ways to capture and connect with leads: live chat. There are several BIG benefits to adding Facebook Messenger chat functionality to your LeadPropeller site, including: It’s 100% free (most chat services require a monthly subscription) Messenger makes it easy for sellers to contact you (the easier it is, the more leads you’ll get) T ..read more

Here are 15 questions that I feel are essential to ask sellers when they contact you about selling their house. These are the questions that I ask each and every time I talk to a seller. When I ask these questions, I am not just trying to find out the details of the house and how much they want, I am trying to find out how motivated they are and how willing they are to sell the house at a price that would make it worth it for me to buy. We don’t want to ‘hard sell’ people and don’t want to come off as someone just reading down a list of questions. It’s best to try and make this as conversation ..read more

The purpose of this post is to try to think up as many marketing methods to find motivated sellers to find more houses to flip. My marketing has slacked up a little and I wanted to consider some different marketing. So here goes: Bandit Signs Real Estate Investor Website Flyers Door Hangers Postcards Dollar Cards Business Cards Code Compliance List Pre-Foreclosure List MLS REO’s REO Realtors MLS Fixer Uppers Evictions Driving for Dollars Car Door Magnets Business Card Magnets Business Card Stickers Large Local Newspaper Ad Pennysaver/Thrifty Nickel Ads Local Specific Paper Ads (military etc ..read more