Naked Lady Real Estate, The Bare Truth About Real Estate Investing

I'm writting for Biggerpockets.com!!!

Wow - I am so excited to announce that I am now a weekly featured columnist for the blog Biggerpockets.com.  This is very exciting for me!  I am not sure if you all know about biggerpockets yet - and it you don't, you should. 

www.biggerpockets.com is a national website/blog for real estate investors.  It was started by Joshua Dorkin in order to create a real estate investors site that was a pitch free zone.  It is a great site that I have been going to for about a year now, however just recently started to participate on the forums. 

Enjoy the site and I hope you enjoy my article!!

To read it click here!

They didn't see it coming!

Either Mr. Paulson is not a smart guy or he is a big fat liar. 

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Which are the best lists to Market To?

Well I have fell off the foreclosure mailing list wagon.  For some reason, I just stopped sending mailings to Foreclosure lists.  I have been dabbling with a few since I stopped using My Realty Data, but I don't like them.  Additionally, these people are getting so many gosh darn letters from other investors - it just seems to be a pain in the behind.  People do contact me - with a Name like Naked Lady Real Estate - I suppose it's hard to resist to see what I am all about. However, for me, I'm not that interested in getting so many short sale leads.  I don't want to do short sales at all.

My favorite way to market is to do a farm area and my all time favorite way to work my farm is to use a program called RealQuest.  Now the only problem with this program is that it is ginormously expensive.  $300-400 a month is a lot of dough man.   However, I love this program! I have been using it as far back to when it was called Win2Data (Thanks to Mike Cantu for introducing it to me back then!)  I can be a little controlling when it comes to my lists and farm area and RealQuest really gives me all the freedom I need to choose my farm down to every little detail, such as demographics and very specific neighborhoods - not just zip codes. I love that I can look up my propery profiles and comps.  It does it all baby! I think it still works with ACT and I am checking on this now.

Of course going the route of having a title rep print me labels for my farm is still available, but these poor guys are really hurting and a lot of these free services are falling apart.  I know it costs a lot of money to create and distribute all this to us. 

Another list solution that I am looking into is buying from list brokers.  I think I like this, but maybe just for certain things such as raising private money or tax liens.  I am learning how to effectively use these list services.  Dave Berens is great at it, so I'm about to pick his brain and ask his advise on this.

Finally I know of Data Quick.  I like them as well.  It does fall a little short of RealQuest in my opinion, however it is still a good system and relatively inexpensive at $200 a month.

I think it is narrowing down to just using Real Quest.  If anyone has better info on this -I welcome your input!

Bottom line:  Never stop marketing, never slow down, never stop....

Announcing our new Los Angeles Meeting!

YAHOO!

So the time is here to officially announce that I am opening a Los Angeles location for my club - Naked Real Estate Investors Club!  Oh no she di -ant...  Yep.  I did...

I have had so many people ask me to have my meetings here in Los Angeles and I am so excited to do it!  We have decided to hold the meetings at AM Vets Hall, which is a nice little veterans hall/auditorium located in Culver City. We are going to having the L.A. meetings on the 2nd Thursday of each month still have our Orange County Meetings in Anaheim the day before on the 2nd Wed of each month!  Yippie!

So please come on down next week and network, make some great connections and listen to a couple of great investors teach us about Out of state Investing and Due Diligence!