| I will try to help you the reader with your efforts to find | | | | wait a day or so until you are in that neighborhood and |
| properties that you can purchase with little or nothing | | | | then stop and knock on the door and remind him/her |
| down. Also will give you some ideas you can give a | | | | that you talked with him earlier and that you are still |
| try. | | | | very interested in their house. |
| First thing we need to do is get set up to where we | | | | Depends on where you live if in a heavily populated |
| can call on for sale by owner ads and for sale my | | | | area you need to establish a rapport with the owners |
| owner signs that are placed in or on the lawns of for | | | | in the area you are interested in purchasing. |
| sale by owners. | | | | You need to put an ad in at least two or three |
| You need to have a phone number that is answered | | | | shopper papers as well as one in the major news |
| most of the time. It has been my experience that | | | | paper if you can afford. Make it a very simple ad that |
| when you talk with someone and leave a phone | | | | says only 3 to 5 or 6 words. "Cash For Houses, Save |
| number for the prospect to return your call, if they ring | | | | Your Credit, Quick Close and phone number" that is all, |
| the number and get a machine, they never call back, | | | | nothing else. |
| and unless you have a machine that captures their | | | | You also need to build a form, a separate sheet that |
| number you have no idea who called and hung up. | | | | lists the owners name, property address, comments |
| If you capture the number, you need to determine the | | | | about property, best time to go and look. |
| caller's location, and rather than calling him back, just | | | | |