REI Wealth Monthly Issue 09 | Page 56

CREATING A MARKETING PLAN TO BUY HOUSES RICHARD ROOP you bought this month, houses you get back this month, houses you buy and then flip next month, and buyers who are finally cashing you out after living in property for a spell. Step 4: Close Get the deed. Get ownership. Do double closings. Buy with owner financing. Flip contracts. Buy houses. How many houses are you going to buy next month? Step 3: Constructing and Presenting Offers Set a goal on how many seller appointments you want next month? Working backward, that will depend on how many houses you want to buy. How many sellers do you need to see to buy a house? Three? Five? Ten? Remember, these are meetings setup after you’ve prescreened the seller. It shouldn’t take too many. Be sure your goal for meeting with sellers supports your goal for buying houses. Step 2: Prescreening Leads How many sellers do you need calling you, asking you to buy their house, in order to get an appointment? First you want to quickly eliminate non-deals. These are properties out of your area, or a type of interested property in. Next, you’re not look OFFER for motivation and equity. If they have some motivation or flexibility, and equity to work with, they are active leads. Work these leads. Go see these sellers. These are your active leads. How many calls and website submission forms do you need to book appointments for, in order to reach your house buying goals? Step 1: Locating Prospects Generating leads is only one way to locate prospects. You can search the MLS, get referrals, hunt down the owners of ugly houses, etc. However, my number one method for locating prospects is direct response marketing. Get sellers calling you. Get sellers submitting their property information to your website or your live operator.