Danny – Welcome and good luck on your land business. 2000 is a good number. You didn’t say how long ago but hang in there. The hate calls come first. You should get a few deals going real soon. Let us know how this first mailer goes.

Are you buying land in the US? or Canada?

Jeremy – Not a stupid question. I use both. Normally I pull data for rural vacant land from RQPro. Sometimes I can’t get the data from RQPro and I try TP247. This has helped me a few times. Also, when a seller accepts my offer I look the property up on ParcelFact, then I will get a TP247 report on that property if I am interested in buying it. In…[Read more]

5 Stars to this post. Excellent information Christian!

Jeff – This question comes up now and then. There is no single answer. I can tell you what I do. First, no purchase agreement is used. I usually get a call and the buyer says “I want to purchase this property. What do I do to make that happen.” Then I run through my spiel which is something like this “Mr Buyer, we can get this done very easily.…[Read more]

Joe – Good information for all of us. Thanks.

Jason – that was smart to spot check the data before downloading. I want to verify that you are referring to Property Addresses. If you are referring to 80% of the data has no mailing address, then don’t work in that county.

Let’s talk about mailing addresses: Most counties do not have an assigned address for vacant land. This is normal. What…[Read more]

Marcus – I used to get hung up on finding all the right zip codes for pricing in a county. Here is the easy way that I use now – download the data, sort by zip code. Copy that zip code column to another tab. Remove duplicates. This is your list of zip codes to price. Then I just go to LandWatch, or Realtor.com, etc and plug in the zip code one at…[Read more]

Steve – The only way you will ever know for sure is to use several different names and test responses on each one with the same mail offer. Or you can just pick a name and send more mail. My business name is Farrell Properties LLC and I buy land all the time. Get your business set up and send out offers.

Chris – you are right. There is a whole lot more out there. I use maps and go county by county checking number of records for property in RQPro and then check comps using LandWatch, etc. Very labor intensive but that is how to find what is available in the rest of the counties.

Jeff – in that case I lost a signed and notarized deed from the seller and an original death cert that he sent for his spouse. They both had to be replaced. Sometimes stuff like this happens and you just have to roll with it.

Jeff – I send everything by Priority Mail. To and From the Notary and to the county. I do this for the tracking and the full size envelope so I don’t have to fold everything. I take a picture of every mail label with the tracking sticker. If something goes wrong I can check the tracking at USPS.com. Out of hundreds of Priority Mail sent and…[Read more]

David – When I buy from a trust and if I am not using a title company, I ask the seller how they want the check made out. Technically, you would make the check out to the trust. PM sent.

Abhinav – Good to hear about your experience with neighbor letters. Nice work. I am working on a deal right now with a property that I am selling to a neighbor. I sent 18 letters and received 2 phone calls. One of them was ready to buy. When it works, it is very convenient. Always worth a try.

Brandon – What you said is correct. Now go do it. Price them by subdivision or by zip code or whatever works best. Put them in one large data file for merge and mail.

Hi Steve – welcome to land investing. Congratulations on getting some deals already. Just keep doing that and you will be amazed at how you can grow this business.

Mike – I try to leave as much in the list as possible. When it comes to LLCs I will throw out the ones that are obvious land wholesalers like “landflipllc”, etc. I have purchased from LLCs, banks, title companies. You never know who is going to sell to you.

Welcome to landinvestors and good luck.

I haven’t used them yet. They sound like they are worth trying. They are only in CA right now.

I put the control number on the offer letter as the REF#. My REF# has a code for State and County followed by a 4 digit number. For example: Kern County CA might look like this CKER-2506. I pile all of my data sets into a big google sheet. I try to get the REF#, name and phone number when people call in response to my offers. When I get a call I…[Read more]