Made my first official offer!

You have made a great step. I know when starting, it takes guts to go visit with the seller and discuss an offer. My suggestion here is to give the Seller sometime and maybe you call him back 2-3 weeks and see how's he doing. You know just follow up. He may not be motivated now, but I am sure as his moving out of state time approaches more and more, his level of motivation will get to the roof. If it doesn't work out, don't give up and continue looking for other properties with motivated sellers. Good luck and congrats!

WOOHOO!! BRAVA, BRAVO, BRAVI!
I did, too! I'm working with a Realtor I found using Matt's letter/ad. First offer in, and paperwork for the next 5 sitting in my e-mail box this morning!

for both of you!
Robert, keep up the good work, after official offer will come the official deal. Good luck with it!
Susan, I am wondering, how many e-mails did you send, to find your realtor?
The reason I am asking is because I sent out 40 e-mails 2 weeks ago, and no answer so far.
Should I wait or keep on bombing the rest of them with my (Matt's) letter?
Thanks
Zsuzsa

You did it scared and hopefully next time will be a breeze. Best Wishes!!

thanks i will call them and write down a reminder in my lil REI book i have lol
we are still marketing more and we got another seller whos looking to sell. Tomorrow im going to call him and see if we can make an appointment for us to see the house. Im exited but not as scared as i was a few days ago

CONGRATS!!! Susan Thats great! Matts 25/1 strategy is great. Thats my next strategy. Hope it all goes well. SUCCESS to us ALL!!

I Sent out probably 6-8, plus the Craigslist posting... I went to the sites for the local realtors, especially Re-Max and Keller-Williams, like Matt said in "30- days", and sent in the letter through their "Contact us" links.

I would suggest you keep going, if you haven't gotten any e-mails or phone calls yet.

i see 6-8 is still a great number of offers. I do need a Realtor on my team. Im working on that. We are planning to market even more next week. Im going to order flyers, post an ad in our local penny saver and news paper, and buy more bandit signs(they work great!!)

Oh, those aren't offers, that's how many offices I sent Matt's (modified) letter to.
I currently have the paperwork for 7 more offers sitting on my desk to be signed/initialed and sent back to the realtor I'm currently working with.

Congratulations Robert!

I think that if we do REI steps that we learn along the way, we WILL get those deals eventually! You are taking steps in the right direction!

Good luck and happy investing!

Cris

You are the one that did the hard part!

But you're welcome!

Karen

congrats on knocking the heck out of the fear!

we can't always control the outcome, we CAN control our actions!

There is great accomplishment and self confidence in self mastery!

Way to go!
Jen

Thanks Tammy im sure next time it will be a lot easier to meet with sellers and talk to them.

Cris if we take one step at a time in the right direction. We will reach success!(: its just a matter of time.

Thanks Karen you did help a lot. Hopefully our next lead becomes a deal!(:

Jen your right, little by little we become better at REI. Success to us all