Birddog update
It's been a couple of weeks since I posted my intentions about birddogging and my plan to get this REI stuff up and running. Last week I ran around renton driving through the neighborhoods and logging FSBO/FRBO, Abandonded, and ugly houses. Picked up about 12 leads. Did the research on them through the tax rolls, and then just keep reading on everything I could get my hands on.
I've been putting off trying to find investors because I was telling myself, "I'll wait until the REI clubs in January. However, on Tuesday night I decided, "Wait, why am I waiting? I could try to find some through Craigslist." So I fired off a couple of emails, and got a hit this morning. It wasn't exactly what I thought I was going to be getting. But I met a gentleman at Starbucks in Factoria who is a Hard Money lender who is working the other side of REI and is tired of just collecting fees. He's mostly interested in Manufactured homes, and finding leads on people who need investments. He described what he does, I described what I am doing. And What I seemed to be doing impressed him. He asked ME questions about where I learned so-much about REI. He'll probably become a great asset to me as I continue to move forward.
After meeting with him I went out driving through the Eastgate area looking for more leads. I found a couple but not as many as I had in Renton. The area I was driving through butted up against Somerset and some of the nicer areas in Bellevue. So Next week during my day's off I'll focus a little more down south. But so far so good. Monday night is the REI club meeting at the Hyatt in Bellevue. The 22nd is the WA-Ria meeting at the Marriot in RTC, and then the following Thursday is the one up in Lynnwood.
Goal for Next Week:
Capture at least 1 investor from the Hyatt
Find 20 driveby leads.
Goal for the Rest of the Month:
Capture 5-10 Investors.
Get my Leads total up to 100 Leads.
Send out 100 Leads to the investors.
I've been putting off trying to find investors because I was telling myself, "I'll wait until the REI clubs in January. However, on Tuesday night I decided, "Wait, why am I waiting? I could try to find some through Craigslist." So I fired off a couple of emails, and got a hit this morning. It wasn't exactly what I thought I was going to be getting. But I met a gentleman at Starbucks in Factoria who is a Hard Money lender who is working the other side of REI and is tired of just collecting fees. He's mostly interested in Manufactured homes, and finding leads on people who need investments. He described what he does, I described what I am doing. And What I seemed to be doing impressed him. He asked ME questions about where I learned so-much about REI. He'll probably become a great asset to me as I continue to move forward.
After meeting with him I went out driving through the Eastgate area looking for more leads. I found a couple but not as many as I had in Renton. The area I was driving through butted up against Somerset and some of the nicer areas in Bellevue. So Next week during my day's off I'll focus a little more down south. But so far so good. Monday night is the REI club meeting at the Hyatt in Bellevue. The 22nd is the WA-Ria meeting at the Marriot in RTC, and then the following Thursday is the one up in Lynnwood.
Goal for Next Week:
Capture at least 1 investor from the Hyatt
Find 20 driveby leads.
Goal for the Rest of the Month:
Capture 5-10 Investors.
Get my Leads total up to 100 Leads.
Send out 100 Leads to the investors.