| You really want to find motivated sellers for real | | | | at your price. They need to get rid of the property |
| estate investing? Put a gun to their heads. That'll | | | | that they have. |
| give those sellers a chance to suddenly find their | | | | Finding These Guys And Gals |
| motivation. But, unfortunately, putting a gun to | | | | There are many online newsletter services that claim |
| someone's head is illegal. There's nothing like an | | | | to do all the work or finding motivated sellers for any |
| assault with a deadly weapons charge to put a | | | | real estate investment newbie. Don't believe them. |
| damper on your real estate investing. | | | | Sure, they will find you some motivated sellers, but you |
| So, you have to resort to legal means to find | | | | will find them anyway if you concentrate on the |
| motivated sellers. Despite a slew of advertisements | | | | property and not the on the seller. |
| on the web and in pint, there is no easy answer for | | | | The best way to find motivated sellers in real estate |
| succeeding in real estate investing. Expect to put in | | | | investing is to not look for them. Then, they show up |
| long hours and hard, migraine-inducing work in order to | | | | like buses. Whet you need to do is concentrate on |
| make a profit. However, this is the best way to learn | | | | the property available. First off, is the property worth |
| any skill. | | | | buying in the first place? Is it within your price |
| Who Are They? | | | | range? How much fixing up does it need? |
| Just what makes a motivated seller (or buyer) any | | | | Location, Location, Location |
| different from any other real estate seller or buyer? | | | | In order to select the property that you are going to |
| "Motivated seller" is a euphemism for someone who | | | | work to buy, you need to consider the location it's in |
| knows more than the average person about real | | | | and the real estate market in that particular area. |
| estate investing. It also means they are willing to | | | | Select the area before you select an individual |
| negotiate in order to sell. They are to be | | | | property to target. Once you've hit a target area, |
| distinguished from the average person who is just | | | | then you can get to specifics buy looking at real estate |
| curious what he can get on the current market, or | | | | listings and even doing a direct mail campaign for that |
| who will only sell under strict circumstances. | | | | particular area. |
| A motivated seller in real estate investing could mean | | | | If you do a direct mail campaign, make it short and |
| that they are desperate to sell, but it also means that | | | | sweet. A regular (and economical postcard) with the |
| they could be experts in negotiation, are beginning the | | | | necessary information is all people will need to see. |
| foreclosure process or are thinking of removing the | | | | And people can will se information on a postcard |
| property from the listings altogether. Think of | | | | immediately as opposed to having to open an |
| motivated sellers as really successful used car | | | | envelope. People will often not even bother to open |
| salesmen. You will not be able to pull any kind of | | | | an envelope from an unknown or unfamiliar return |
| wool over their eyes. | | | | address, just assuming its junk mail. |
| Why would you want to find a motivated seller when | | | | When you concentrate on a location and get the word |
| you're into real estate investing? They are truculent, | | | | out that you are interested in buying for this location, |
| argumentive and going to give you a hard time. | | | | then the sellers will come to you like flies to rotting |
| However, they are also the ones who will wind up | | | | meat. |
| eventually selling you the property you want and often | | | | |