I have a list from a birddog that has addresses of vacant houses. I looked up online the tax records to find the owners of the vacant houses. The only thing it has there is the current owners address and no phone number. Is there any other way to contact these people or find out their phone numbers? Or should I just send them a mailing that says that I am an investor looking to purchase their vacant house? Thanks, Mike
Hi Dynomac,
Sending a postcard or letter to a vacant property owner is pretty much throwing your money away, since they’ll think it’s junk mail, and will probably file it under “T” (for trash). Try using www.zabasearch.com, since you already have their name and address. Zabasearch has phone numbers for the individual you’re looking for.
Good luck!
i’d mail them and have them call me. if you have a good mailing piece with a compelling message, they’ll keep it and call you when they’re ready to sell. the main thing is to stand out from the competition.
calling’s not a bad strategy if you have alot of time and thick skin. that calls for persistence.
If free searches don’t work, you can try online skip tracing services such as MerlinData or Maralogix.
I have mailed out countless letters to property owners. I have received to my letters maybe 1/3 response back. I would say, this process is time consuming, costly and annoying; however proably not as costly as doing several searched for numbers off the onternet. Depending upon where you live, stamps can’t be more than $.40 and you figure your paper?
If you are getting 1/3 response, you should have crushing sales right now, and I would love it if you could share your letter and your approach with me. Most direct mail response rate is roughly 1%, a full 32% below your current response rate.
I’m with turbo, I’d take a 33% response rate any day.
I agree with the above statements. More than 10% even is a amazing letter. I have tried many different variations and many different sales pieces. I have tried the hand written letter, a big piece of bright colored paper, a simple postcard, a letter inside a big Fed Ex like envelope so it sticks out, anything you name it.
Time after time the response is still fairly low and nothing like 30+%
Brandon
How long after you send out letters does usually it take to get a response?