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Luke Smith replied to the topic Social Media Question in the forum **Pro-Only Members – Ask A Question** 1 year ago
Sure wish I could get rid of BBB.
I’m looking at hiring out more website to push BBB off the first page of Google when you search me out. Its on my to do list.
Any hints to get out of BBB would be great.
Address change? Name change? Attorney letters? Cease and Desist campaigns.I get some jokers on my social media presence but surprisingly its…[Read more]
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Luke Smith replied to the topic Address verification services in the forum **Pro-Only Members – Ask A Question** 1 year ago
Vic, Yea the USPS has data vendors you can use and or they have their own system that goes up to 10000 records a run. It corrects your mailing address to where they are vacationing or moved to. It points out addresses that will most likely not get delivered too. You can get a lot more accurate using their data.
I would not recommend doing this…[Read more]
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Luke Smith replied to the topic When do you involve a real estate agent vs. self posting/ flat fee MLS? in the forum **Ask A Question** 2 years ago
I think the 20-40K stuff is very hard to sell. To big for credit card and too small for agents most of the time. Now if you have some 100K stuff and some 20K stuff the agents usually take them all and it also depends on the local market there too. That may be their only option that is the market.
The bigger $ ones start getting into finance…[Read more]
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Luke Smith replied to the topic Timbering the property in the forum **Ask A Question** 2 years ago
In some areas that starts a building moratorium for 5 years. I figured that out the hard way so look into that first.
You might be able to get them to leave some of the weird shape trees so it still looks like good land for homesteading instead of scorched earth. Sometimes they leave strategic stands of trees to help sell the land better too.…[Read more]
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Luke Smith replied to the topic First batch of 10,000 mailers going out… in the forum **Pro-Only Members – Ask A Question** 2 years ago
Keep us updated. That is a lot of mail. I’m liking it just wondering what the learning curve might be to research them all.
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Luke Smith replied to the topic Finding Easement info in the forum **Ask A Question** 2 years ago
If you are penny pinching starting out style pick up the phone and ask the county recorder/clerk. They might send you to the Assessor for a document number or something like that for your area. Ask the assessor for the most recent transfer of ownership document number. Then say and before that…. see how far back they go. Take that back to the…[Read more]
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Luke Smith replied to the topic RealQuest – Filtering by APN Scheme in the forum **Pro-Only Members – Ask A Question** 2 years ago
Thanks Laurie and Chip. I wish I had time to make more videos like that. I just bought a big paper jogger to help get all the mail in order so I can jam it into the scanner easier. The Philippians can filter it out and get it into my system to take down all the accepted offers as well as keep track of all the property tax bills. I’m trying to cut…[Read more]
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Luke Smith replied to the topic texas in the forum **Ask A Question** 2 years ago
For Hudspeth county I bought some out there a while back. Time to learn how to real legal descriptions to find them! I went on earthpoint.us and look for “Texas search by description”
Then eventually you get a map in google earth pointing to the section that the block or what ever is in your legal describes.
From there if you are still lost…[Read more]
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Luke Smith replied to the topic Quit Claim Deeds in the forum **Ask A Question** 2 years ago
Or you could stay out of the desert and other low price land. Then you can price in all kinds of ways to fix things. People owning the bigger $ stuff pay to get things fixed the right way too. Lot less problems the more you go up in price.
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Luke Smith replied to the topic Callme service? in the forum **Pro-Only Members – Ask A Question** 2 years ago
Gillian will change things to get you what you want. How are they supposed to know if you don’t ask them. You might want to write scripts for them and answers to questions too.
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Luke Smith replied to the topic Owner Financing Question in the forum **Pro-Only Members – Ask A Question** 2 years ago
I sold hundreds of them. 25$ a month, 50$ a month, $100 a month even $500 a month. Most don’t pay off. They disappear or worse they call with life happens stories and want help. I think lower $ points sell them for cash.
Or better yet post them on Tic Tok and ask double.
Get your reach going to more people.
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Luke Smith replied to the topic First Sales! in the forum **Pro-Only Members – Ask A Question** 2 years ago
Are you basing the price off what you paid for them or off what others are charging for like kinds of land? I would look at like kinds of land and price lower.
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Luke Smith replied to the topic Is it ok if the property is trashed? in the forum **Pro-Only Members – Ask A Question** 2 years ago
Check out this trash.
Pictures of trash on land dealTurns out the land was not a legal lot. Title caught it. I thought I was going to be taking out the trash here as soon as it closed.
Was thinking Home Depot parking lot Guatemalan and a rental trailer. Tow it to the dump all day long. -
Luke Smith replied to the topic What are your key metrics? in the forum **Ask A Question** 2 years ago
I think profit per deal is more important than profit per mailer sent. Its easier to go after bigger deals and then all the rest of the numbers follow.
I like to study the best deals happening in my business and then try to emulate them. Try to double them or multiply them.
Just sold a couple this weekend buy 50K each sold one for 95K one for…[Read more]
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Luke Smith replied to the topic Old Mobile On Property in the forum **Pro-Only Members – Ask A Question** 2 years ago
I would not have it removed I tried to do that a couple times. Turns out lots of the time you remove it and the regulations of putting a new one there change. You want buyers to use it to help them through the local permitting process of “Fixing” “Repairing” or replacing it however those rules may or may not pan out.
Might want to ask the local…[Read more]
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Luke Smith replied to the topic Latest Mailer 43K big $ offers! in the forum +Success Stories+ 2 years ago
I’m trying to get more accurate rather than send loads of mail. Or better yet loads of more accurate mail!
Now I can do the same thing in other areas. I got it all set up.
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Luke Smith started the topic Latest Mailer 43K big $ offers! in the forum +Success Stories+ 2 years ago
Just sent a big mailer for me. Over 43,000 offers. Started out near 100K records it boiled down a lot.
Hit big dollar vacant land of all sizes in areas with short days on market priced each area based on how short too. Areas with lots of large $ vacant land sales since COVID.
Scrubbed 5 states to cherry pick the best looking little pockets.…[Read more]
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Luke Smith replied to the topic Combining Duplicate Owners of Adjacent Land for One Price Mailer in the forum **Ask A Question** 2 years ago
I had a MIT spreadsheet wiz friend of mine do a formula to make a mailer that had up to 5 properties listed on it with a different price for each one and a total for all of them.
If they had one property they did not notice and if they had more they were all listed across multiple counties in that mailer.
We wanted to stay on two pages so we…[Read more]
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Luke Smith replied to the topic Anyone ever close any deals in New York State? in the forum **Ask A Question** 2 years ago
This credit card sales size deals? Just sell it and ship a deed to the county with a recording fee. Am I missing something? Sold some there I got in portfolios, never targeted it.
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Luke Smith replied to the topic wants to sell with back taxes in the forum **Pro-Only Members – Ask A Question** 2 years ago
Nice thing about COVID besides the land sales is that lots of the tax auctions are put off until next year too so you have lots of time to negotiate and close it too.
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