I thought this would be much easier than it has turned out to be. : I have spent hours googling for a service that provides cheap websites for real estate investors.
This is all I want: an aestetically pleasing website that allows leads to enter data about their home for sale, and for the website to simply submit that info to me via fax or email, for a reasonable setup/monthly fee. That’s it! I have an available domain name in mind. The website could be one simple page for all I care. As long as the prospect can fill out the simple application, and submit.
I have found pretty much everything EXCEPT what I’m looking for. I found one service which for $99 setup/$10 a month you get nothing more than an online business card (no form for the lead to fill out). Other than that, I found a bunch of services that offer all the bells & whistles for no less than $495 setup/$49 a month. I can deal with $49/month, but the $495 setup fee is much too expensive seeing how I haven’t closed a deal and I only want a very simple website anyway.
Has anyone found something similar to what I’m looking for? Or is there a VERY user-friendly method with which I could create my own site? Totalrealestatesolutions.com was too difficult for me, I’m not savvy with creating websites at all.
Try to build one yourself. I wanted one fast, on the cheap, so I went to GoDaddy.com. Check and register your domain and build it with their WebSite Tonight program. Mind you though, it took me more than “tonight” to build! Good Luck.
NSU,
Get them to waive the set up charge and tell them you will give 1000 of your closest investors their contact info. They will waive it… I do it all the time.
Once we get done and if your not up to learning any code that’s fine simply use scriptlance.com and guys are willing to make changes all the time for CHEAP. Or if I’m available and the change isn’t drastic call me and I’ll do it for free. If it’s alot of work I’ll give you a flat job quote which will be much less than the pro’s charge.
Do a Google search for Homestead Design . . . they have thousands of predesigned websites that they will tweak for your company with content and specifications you provide them . . . our starting price was $148 and then it’s $49.95 per month to host and they guarantee 20 hits per month (where a viewer actually clicks on your site and views your content).
I have a property management company and will have marketing info, online rental payment and maintenance requests for tenants, apartment searches and online applications (with Visa & MC), and property owner logon to retrieve financial statements. So it’s not just simple ‘storefront’ pages . . . they’re interactive and somewhat sophisticated.
We’re just getting ours up and will see how it goes. But after spending thousands a couple of years ago on a high priced website that fell way short of our expectations and results, we believe that this company and others like it will be the wave of the future . . . low priced, high volume, sufficiently differentiated websites.
I’ve been building sites for years now and believe me when I say your getting ripped off if you pay a site monthly that much money. For realestate investors you want a site that will do three things for you. Generate leads, tell what you do and if you want display properties that your wholesaling or trying to sale once rehabbed. You don’t need a dynamic site to show property for sale. Just add the listing by hand using simple pre built html code. If you have over 50 properties to show or want users to upload their listings then yes you need a dynamic site that uses PHP and MySQL database technolgy or something similiar.
Scriptlance.com is a great site to get projects like these done for very little money. Most programmers will do one for 2 or 3 hundred sometimes less. And they are very good at what they do. If you need a change done later simply go back to the same guy and he may do it for free. Tip always keep him on instant messanger :). Most will charge a small fee to make the changes unless its very time consuming then your looking at a flat rate fee but still very affordable.
Bottom line is once your site is built it only takes $3.33 a month to run the site on a server! PM me and I’ll send you the company name I use. That’s all I pay for my site a month!! Take a look I’m building the site by hand coding it myself using notepad that comes with every computer in America.
If your wanting a site like mine and you have the desire to learn HTML and how to enter a server using IE “VERY SIMPLE” and change code in files “AGAIN VERY SIMPLE” then simply try building one yourself once you learn HTML. You can learn HTML in about 4 hours and it will save you a ton of money. Once done you’ll be able to make updates yourself and save yourself $20 - $100 a month.
Their sites are all the same. Imagine the seller who googles “we buy houses” and sees the same website over and over again. You think he’ll inquire on all of them or none of them?..
i dont count on search engine leads, i drive people to my website.
And I am no designer but my understanding is search engines are based on keywords and relevance to the site. So as long as you insert the proper copy, it shouldnt matter the template
Personally I am not going to spend hours and hours learning HTML and trying to figure out technical issues.
I didnt realize the poster had already tried totalrealestatesolutions. If they find that too hard too use, i doubt they are up for learning HTML.
NSU, what kind of issues were you having because I find the site easy to use. Some features are a little advanced like inserting our logo on the header but their tech support is great and did it for me w/o asking them too ( i emailed them asking how and they did it)
Your right Dream Host does have excellent customer service but they demand a setup fee of $49 plus a steep monthly hosting fee plus you have to sign up for atleast 3 months or more at the same time if I remember right.
Computinghost.com offers a comparable package with no setup fee, same excellent customer service, and you can do month to month all for $3.33 a month. My site has never gone down yet and I’ve used alot of hosting companies including Dream Host.
with a promo code, it cost me 22.95 for the entire year - registration and hosting.
the second year will be 119 (i think), but with all the promo codes and chance to actually cut that by alot by offering people to sign up through my referral - i get alot off.
lets say the full year is 120 bucks ( i get no friends or referrals though me to sign up), that’s 12 bucks a month.
i’m not sure what you’re talking about the 49 fee. there was none for me.
their control panel is very easy, offering web ftp, one click installs and other goodies. they make it very eeeaaasssyyyy.
i’m definitely satisfied.
but i mean, the one you’re talking about sounds good too.
right, i see that, but it basically costs about 8 bucks a month or $153 for two years of hosting, or 6.40 a month.
8 X 12 - 20% off = 153 / 24 = 6.40 (approx).
no set up fee, it’s waived.
and yes, that’s double of what you’re paying, this i understand.
but why would you only want to set up a host for a month to month basis? i mean, if you’re going to have a website, you want that domain and hosting right?
but why would you only want to set up a host for a month to month basis? i mean, if you’re going to have a website, you want that domain and hosting right?
Answer: Trust me my friend not all host are created equal I’ve used alot of them and quite a few have bad customer service skills and some I’ve ran across has slow servers or my pages were down alot. Dream Host is on the better end of the stick I agree but I won’t be stuck in a contract on any host. Domains are transferable. Simply change the name servers. I want the ability to move my files if my host starts to get stupid with me.
I have spent hours googling for a service that provides cheap websites for real estate investors.