Successful Door Knocking For Real Estate Investors
By Larry goins
Door knocking or canvassing as I like to call it is a great way to get some great deals and some great experience. You can do it yourself first and once you get the hang of it then you can hire others to work for you to do it.
There are also many types or groups that you can canvass. You can canvass in apartment complexes to find potential buyers of your properties. You can canvas pre foreclosure properties. You can get this list at the county courthouse or subscribe to a listing service that offers these types of lists. You can also just pick a neighborhood or 'farming area' as the realtor's call it to find properties to buy and either resell them or rent them out.
There are many places you can canvass. Canvassing is like putting out door hangers but you will actually ring the doorbell and have a script you say at the door. You may be going to people in pre foreclosure or just in neighborhoods where you want to buy houses. Realtors do it all the time and they call it 'farming a market'. You want to be careful when canvassing especially if you are female and/or you are hiring others to do it for you. You never know who will answer the door
How to get the door opened:
Most people are afraid to open the door to a stranger. Here are a few ideas that will work and give you a jump on any other investor out knocking on their door.
Always make sure that you have a clipboard with a lead sheet or form on it to look professional. Here is another idea to help get the door opened. Simply go down to a passport photo place and have a name tag made with your picture on it and the name of your company with a title like Housing Consultant. Once you get this, you need to put it on your shirt so that you are standing at the door and the homeowner is looking through the peephole, they will see you have a name tag on with your picture and they will no longer be afraid to answer the door. It works great! I know from experience.
Make sure you or your canvassers also have flyers or door hangers with them so they can leave something at the home if no one comes to the door. Be sure to make it fun and exciting and you can do this by offering spiffs or bonuses to your canvassers when they get a lead or deal. Also remember to take plenty to drink so they will not get dehydrated.
About the author
For more articles and a 10 part e-course on how to create your own Ultimate Buying and Selling Machine! plus over 50 training audios, simply go to www.LarryGoinsFreeOffer.com where you will gain instant access from http://www.FreeArticlesAndContent.com
|
|
Copy This Article
For FREE!!!
You can use this article and copy it on your own website
for free! All you have to do is make sure the article
is copied with no changes and includes the "About
The Author" text. Also please ensure that all url's
are hyperlinked according. Thank you. |
Link To This Article - And We'll
Link Back To Your Website!
You are more then welcome to link to this article! All
you have to do is copy this webpage address from the
address bar and create a link on your website. Please
use the title of this article for your link text. Please
get in contact once you have linked to this article
and we'll link back to you! Thank you. |
|
|
|
Other great articles from this category...
|
Related Sites
|
|
