| How do I find buyers to sell my properties to? That is | | | | because they've already shown the ability to close on |
| the ultimate question in today's buyers' market. Gone | | | | similar property. |
| are the days of sticking a For Sale By Owner sign in | | | | Another great way to find wholesale buyers is to |
| the yard and receiving multiple offers within 24 hours. | | | | blanket the area around your deal with bandit signs. |
| No, today's market dictates that you have a plentiful | | | | These are the ugly 18" x 24" coroplast signs you see |
| supply of ready buyers to whom you can sell your | | | | everywhere on the side of the road and on telephone |
| wholesale deals. In this article, I'm going to show you | | | | poles. Yes, they're ugly, but they're effective. On the |
| some of the very best ways of locating wholesale | | | | signs, hand write a simple message like this - "3 bed/2 |
| buyers. Generally, these will be buyers that are willing | | | | bath house, needs work, worth $100k, will sell for $40k |
| to pay cash for your deals. | | | | CASH". You'll get a ton of phone calls from these |
| One of the very best ways to find buyers is to figure | | | | signs; the caveat is they won't all be qualified, so you'll |
| out who has already bought similar property in your | | | | need to sift and sort a bit to find the true players. One |
| market. To do this, you'll need to find a list provider like | | | | word of advice: make sure you or someone working |
| RealQuest.com, MelissaData.com, or even the tax roll | | | | for you is able to pick up the phone when buyers call. |
| in your local county. What you want to do is get a list | | | | That way, you can also request their email address, |
| of investor buyers that have purchased houses in the | | | | and you don't have to worry about them not leaving a |
| last 6 months within the area(s) where you want to | | | | message. |
| sell wholesale deals. These will be absentee owners | | | | A third way to find wholesale buyers is the use of |
| for whom their mailing address differs from the | | | | social media. This is a relatively new method, but your |
| property address. You can use zip codes to narrow | | | | competition is already likely building their buyers' list |
| down the relevant area. Once you obtain this list, mail | | | | through websites like Twitter and FaceBook, and you |
| everyone on the list a postcard. Your postcard need | | | | should be doing the same. The best way to do this on |
| not be anything fancy. I like to use the U.S. Postal | | | | FaceBook is to join every real estate-related group in |
| Service's system available through Click2Mail. Just | | | | your area, then friend everyone in the group. Also, |
| send a simple card with message on the back of the | | | | consider forming your own group and attract buyers |
| card stating that you saw they bought a property in | | | | to you that way. On Twitter, make sure you provide |
| the area recently and wondered if they'd be interested | | | | great content in your posts, and people will begin to |
| in a deal you have available. Drive them to a website | | | | follow you. |
| squeeze page to capture their contact information (so | | | | Then, when you have a wholesale deal available, post |
| you can add them to your email buyers' list). After they | | | | it to your accounts. |
| enter their info., direct them to the website where you | | | | There are many other ways of finding wholesale |
| display your deals. The big advantages to this method | | | | buyers that work in today's market, but for the |
| over all others are 1) you're capturing their contact info, | | | | purposes of this article, I've focused the discussion on |
| so even if they don't buy a deal from you now, you've | | | | three of the best methods that I know are working |
| got their email and can contact them about future | | | | today. |
| deals; and 2) you know that these buyers are legit | | | | |