OfflineHere are some ideas for finding buyers:
1. Accountants
2. “Adopt a Street” Sign
3. Appraisers
4. Attorneys
5. Bandit Signs
6. Benches
7. Billboards
8. Bulletin Boards
9. Bus Stops
10. Business Cards
11. Car Wash
12. Certified Public Accountants (CPA)
13. Chamber of Commerce
14. Charitable events
15. Charitable Raffles
16. Closing Agents
17. Club Membership Bulletin Board
18. Community Business Organizations
19. Contractors
20. Cooperative (Co-Op) Advertising
21. County Records Employees
22. Craigslist.org
23. Developers
24. Door Hangers
25. Door-to-door Canvassing
26. Escrow Officers
27. Expired MLS Listings
28. Financial Planners
29. Financial/Money Advisors
30. Flower Carts
31. Flyers
32. Free Gift Advertizing
33. Freebie Newspaper Ads
34. FSBO Magazines
35. Grocery Store/Wal-mart Pinup Board
36. Handouts
37. Handymen
38. Hard Money Lenders
39. Hats
40. Home Inspectors
41. Host a Charitable Function
42. Investors
43. Laundromats
44. Legal Newspapers
45. Lenders
46. Local Churches
47. Local Employers
48. Local Landlords
49. Magnetic Vehicle Signs
50. Mail Center
51. Minor Newspaper Ads
52. Mortgage Brokers
53. Movie Theater Ads
54. Newspaper Weekend Edition Ads
55. Online Advertizing
56. Open Houses
57. Paper Signs
58. Postcards
59. Private Money Lenders
60. Promotional Materials: Pens/ Calendars/Note Pads/Magnets
61. Property Brochures
62. Property Management Companies
63. Radio Ads
64. Real Estate Agents
65. Real Estate Auctions
66. Referrals
67. Rent-to-Own Stores
68. Restaurants
69. Restroom Advertising
70. Secondary Lenders
71. Special TV Programming
72. Sponsor an Event
73. Sponsor Sports Team
74. Strip Mall Owners
75. Sub-Contractors
76. Title Companies
77. T-Shirts
78. TV Ads/Commercial
79. TV Guide/Newspapers
80. Vehicles Wraps
81. Walking Billboards
82. Weekly Hotels
83. White Vehicle Lettering
84. Yellow Pages
85. Your Existing Occupants
Roy Voeks
Official RE Coach
That is a great list of ways to build a buyers list.
The key to building a good buyers list is to have a few different strategies going at the same time. My suggestion is to have 3-4 different ways of finding buyers going. This allows you multiple streams coming in at the same time, and offers you the ability to build that list quickly. Choose 3-4 that appeal to you, then go for it. Test it for a few weeks and measure your results on each. Those that aren’t producing, throw them out and move to another strategy. Make sure you have 3-4 going at all times.
Go get em!
Recently discovered a section of my newspaper advertising real estate auctions -- getting ready to visit and do some networking next weekend. Hope I see plenty of investors there; been having a difficult go of it in growing my buyers' list.
Thanks for the tips; wasn't too sure of visiting the auction at first
Hi Roy,
Great advice my friend on finding buyers. I personally find buyers via websites like craigslist.com and I will do search for "buy houses" then search the ads that I like and call them. I also like to find them at auctions and real estate club meetings, where I can talk to them in person and get them qualified.
Thanks,
Shah Ali
I use prop trend to find buyers. I worked on a list i created in prop trend and found hundreds of buyers. I then went to yellow pages and google and found a ton of phone numbers I can call directly to them.
The buyers on prop trend are legit, they have cash and are closing. I can now follow up on them and get them on my buyers list.
If you don't have prop trend you can create the same kind of list from your agent. They can look up all the cash sold properties on the MLS and you can follow up to see who the buyer was and their address on the county records. I've been doing that for years and it works great.
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