Getting your letters opened
Hi All.
I recently was reading a post about getting your letters opened. It had a link to a printing company that made envelopes that looked like Priority mail envelopes. Can anyone provide that link again? Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get it opened and to get your phone ringing?
Thanks
JDC21,
There are different ways that work for each individual investor, but for me, the secret has been . . . Repetition!
Best of success!
BAMZ
I was just browsing through the posts and I was thinking to myself, wouldn't you waste alot of money and time sending out letter after letter. I think it would be more productive to find a working solution from the door. Just my thoughts. I'll wait for other replies on this subject. I'm sure someone out there has an attention getting marketing secret that they are willing to share.
Priority Mailing sounds like a great idea. But once again my concern would be cost.
Ervan
edickens82@yahoo.com
I am getting ready to use some "Lumpy Mail" ideas that I paid for thru Jon Goldman's Mr. Lumpy mail website:
http://lumpymail.com/
He is not the original, but it's the only website that I have bookmarked that sells "stuff".
The principal is that a letter that has texture - something obviously inside - will get opened more times than plain mail. Some of the ideas are pre-printed magnets with your pertinent business stuff on it, hour glasses with a letter that says something about your time running out. A 2-pak asprin/tylenol attached to a letter that says I can help take away your head ache if you just give me a call....
He and his staff are very helpful with great ideas. They even have some type of PreForeclosure packages, I think so be sure to ask.
The one thing I'm going to use in the next week or so is a "Message in a bottle" You can buy plastic wine bottles that you can actually mail thru the regular mail without putting it into a box. I'm going to put a little bit of sand in the bottom, along with some tiny seashells, a plastic palm tree and my sales letter rolled up with a gold ribbon tying it. You can seal it and just put a label and postage. I don't think anyone would NOT open something like that. I am not sure what they cost, but if it got all of your letters opened and you got a ton of deals out of it, who cares what it would cost!
I will let you know what the results are.
Edickens82,
It is all a matter of opinion. I've found that if you scrimp on advertising and business growth, it may scrimp on your profits.
I have a system that I use for when I acquire my weekly list of NODS. I have 5 mailings that I send out on a periodic schedule. I place each new NOD into the according file and when the correct date comes, I simply put a stamp on them and send them out. It happens like clock work. I can spend about $50 per month on my mailing campaign, and like I say, it is all a matter of persepctive. You would fall of your chair if I told you how much I made on my last short sale.
There are other ways that work well for other investors, but this is a proven approach that has worked effectively for me!
Best of Success!
BAMZ
bamz,
your system sounds nice and orderly which i like. just curious where you get your NODs -- im in kentucky so it may not even be relevant, but just wondering. thx.
Thanks for all the help. CCinWashington,
Lumpy Mail has the "express envolopes" I was talking about. I think it was John Locke that had the origional article, and if you mentioned his name you would get a discount. Let us know how your message in a bottle works out. Good Luck!
BAMZ, where do you receive your weekly list of NODS from? title company? Thanks!
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On 2003-04-16 00:35, BAMZ wrote:
Edickens82,
It is all a matter of opinion. I've found that if you scrimp on advertising and business growth, it may scrimp on your profits.
I have a system that I use for when I acquire my weekly list of NODS. I have 5 mailings that I send out on a periodic schedule. I place each new NOD into the according file and when the correct date comes, I simply put a stamp on them and send them out. It happens like clock work. I can spend about $50 per month on my mailing campaign, and like I say, it is all a matter of persepctive. You would fall of your chair if I told you how much I made on my last short sale.
There are other ways that work well for other investors, but this is a proven approach that has worked effectively for me!
Best of Success!
BAMZ
Man,
I make a quick visit to the courthouse on a weekly basis. In my city, they keep preliminary information at the Recorders office, but it is easier to just go to the Circuit Clerks office and pull the complete foreclosure files for review.
Best of Success!
BAMZ
Does the clerk get the NOD's before the newspaper? Today I went and knocked on a door the same day that the NOD came out in the paper, and the homeowner had just been served the notice about an hour before I arrived. Will I get a headstart (before the newspaper notice) by going to the county clerk? Thanks!
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On 2003-04-23 15:01, BAMZ wrote:
Man,
I make a quick visit to the courthouse on a weekly basis. In my city, they keep preliminary information at the Recorders office, but it is easier to just go to the Circuit Clerks office and pull the complete foreclosure files for review.
Best of Success!
BAMZ
[ Edited by hha8 on Date 05/07/2006 ]
Man yeah the court gets the leads before the paper. Thats where the paper get their leads from the court house.
When you say the courthouse gets the leads first. What branch of the court would you go to, to find that information.
HB Inc.
Okay... I saw where to go in the earlier text! Never mind!
Yes, I would 1) take photos, 2) file a police report, and 3) send your tenants a certified letter to the effect that you expect your rent paid irrespecitve of what someone may have told them.
Then, I would prepare, and send a bill to Safeguard.
They have secured several properties I have seen in WI. They do the winterizing/changing the locks for properties that are taken back by some of the big banks in the area.
Never heard of anything like this though, the previously suggested advice sounds like the right path to take.
panicfilms,
Would you mind sharing the how this problem with Safeguard was resolved in the case you mentioned above? what did you have to do to get the issue taken care of? Were they easy to deal with?
Thanks,
JS.
Bargin76, that key may get you into some of their properties but not all, Almost every bank has there own keycode that they use. At present I have 15 different key codes that I use. I do contract work for Safeguard.
Also as a side note, if you enter those houses with that key and have no legal ownership in those houses you in fact will be tresspassing and if caught will be prosecuted. I would suggest getting rid of the key.
Realtors are required by law to present all legitimate offers. Go to the head broker and be firm. Good luck.
Da Wiz
From the details you have provided, I think you sort of shot yourself in the foot.
When the agent asked if you had financing in place, you said NO and did not offer any explanation. If you had just followed up and said, "I have not decided how I will fund this purchase, yet. I can use my own cash if the seller is willing to be flexible on pricing", I bet the agent would have been falling all over himself to get your offer written on the spot.
Instead, you just let the agent assume that you were not a serious buyer and then allowed that impression to stand.
There is a chance that this agent is not terribly motivated even when a buyer is able to close tomorrow, but you did not help yourself.
At this point, maybe you should go through another agent (at another agency) and have that agent present your offer along with your pre-qual letter or a copy of your bank statement showing sufficient funds to close.
Just my opinion.
I have always been told, and also experienced that being pre-qualified means the bank takes the information u give them about your income and debt , and pre-qualify you for how much house you can afford.
When you get pre-approved you pay for a credit report and your credit is checked along with your debt and income. So when u are pre-approved, u are assured to get a loan, a pre-qualify only says u qualify for a loan from the information u give , and u still have to be approved.
That has been my experience.
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