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Finding Real Estate Deals

by hal1989
6 replies
Hi,

I am setting up a website to locate what real estate investors call 'motivated sellers'. I flip houses and rehab properties to become rentals and am always looking for the next great deal. If I have more than I can handle, I can make a commission 'selling' the deal to another investor for a several thousand $ fee.

To find these properties, I want to do a combination of internet marketing, direct mail and networking. On the internet marketing side, my website is here:

I Buy Twin Cities Houses

The twin city area is Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN.

Since I have been much more involved in real estate than internet marketing, I wanted to reach out to this forum for some help. The website has a ways to go (please ignore the issue with the header and some other area). We are still in the development phase.

But I would love some feedback from the experts on this forum about things I should do to help attract people who really need to sell their house in a hurry. Thanks in advance.
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  • Profile picture of the author Nate A
    Without getting into specific critiques about layouts, copy, etc. What kind of traffic and conversion are you getting?

    Are people calling that number or filling out your contact form? Are you using google analytics right now?

    As far as strategy goes, you obviously know the housing market, but what about the people themselves? Your website should speak directly towards solving the PROBLEM that selling the house would fix. I hope that helps and makes sense.
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    • Profile picture of the author hal1989
      Originally Posted by Nate A View Post

      Without getting into specific critiques about layouts, copy, etc. What kind of traffic and conversion are you getting?

      Are people calling that number or filling out your contact form? Are you using google analytics right now?

      As far as strategy goes, you obviously know the housing market, but what about the people themselves? Your website should speak directly towards solving the PROBLEM that selling the house would fix. I hope that helps and makes sense.
      Nate - Thanks for the quick reply. I'm not getting any traffic now. I'm just building the site. This post was looking for some 'pre-emptive' advice. I am looking to target people facing foreclosure, those inheriting houses from deceased relatives that they don't want, people with financial difficulties that need to sell, people who need to sell to settle a divorce and burned out landlords. Basically anyone who is sick of owning their house. If you go to the 'Solutions' tab on my website you can see pages for each of them.

      I thought I would run a blog on the site giving advice on repairing credit, how to avoid foreclosure, tips on selling your house the normal way (which they hopefully will find to be too much of a pain), how to evict tenants if you are a fed-up landlord and other things that might help people in financial distress.

      I don't know Jack about SEO and am trying to learn in order to have people find it. I think my offline marketing might be able to help them find the site as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author ElijahM
    I would use Craigslist and post signs locally. Put advertisements in the same places, newspapers, etc., that real estate agents/brokers do.
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    • Profile picture of the author hal1989
      Thanks Elijah. I am planning to do that too as part of my offline marketing. Direct mail too. But I am trying to put together a whole marketing solution. I came here looking for suggestions for my website?
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  • Profile picture of the author ahlexis
    Where's your website hosted?

    The reason I ask is, if it's Hostgator, then you might have a boatload of pre-designed templates at your disposal that come with the hosting account that have only one catch, that they must be hosted on Hostgator servers to remain within copyright. And they're really good templates.

    Also, there are a few pre-done solutions that include the complete back-office database and lead management and more for sites out there. The pricing on these are all over the place, from a low of <$500 or so up to however much you might want to spend. Plus there are a few solutions that are monthly subscriptions as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author HelpingYouBeAnExpert
    Just do direct mail marketing to investors you can get a list in REal Quest and a list of homeowners in real quest as well then match the 2 to get started.
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