Get Real Estate Deals by Having Meaningful Conversations with Sellers
The Transactional Real Estate Investor Show with Blair Halver
Release Date: 04/27/2020
Several Exit Strategies to Make Your Equity, Cash Flow, or Both!
The Transactional Real Estate Investor Show with Blair Halver
Hear about different exit strategies you can use for just one deal. More and more opportunities are popping up in this economic crisis. And more!
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Buy Subject-to, Fix and Flip!
The Transactional Real Estate Investor Show with Blair Halver
In this episode, hear about three deals Blair and Jeff are working on with different exit strategies. Learn how to buy subject-to, fix and flip, and how to get an $80K payday just for writing out a check to bring a loan current.
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Line up Your Buyer Before You Close a Deal to Avoid Taking Any Risk!
The Transactional Real Estate Investor Show with Blair Halver
The real estate business has great opportunities. As transactional engineers, you have all the strategies needed to identify them and turn them into deals. The market is constantly changing because of the economic crisis. Several states are experiencing significant disturbances, such as violent protests. Buyers in some areas will be difficult to get. In questionable areas, line up your buyers before closing on a deal to avoid taking risks.
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Buy Cheap, Hold for the Long-Term, and Make Money on the Spread!
The Transactional Real Estate Investor Show with Blair Halver
In this episode, learn how to handle loans when there is already a mortgage, how to approach deals with subject-to involving expensive properties, and how this business works in rural areas. Discover the right time to negotiate the purchase price, how negotiation works in term deals and cash deals, and how to deal with a probate estate.
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Don’t Waste Time and Get That Seller on the Phone!
The Transactional Real Estate Investor Show with Blair Halver
Learn how to get sellers on the phone, discover how to estimate the purchase amount for a cash purchase, how to respond to buyers wanting to know what the process of rent-to-own is, and the process and document signatures needed when assigning the deed at closing. And more!
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Do Not Be Conservative with Your ARV!
The Transactional Real Estate Investor Show with Blair Halver
Transactional real estate engineers must never be conservative with their ARV! If your ARV is too conservative, you will lack a margin to make a profit! Learn all about it in this episode!
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Always Keep Interested Buyers with Money in Play!
The Transactional Real Estate Investor Show with Blair Halver
In this episode, learn how to talk to buyers to keep them lined up and in play, how to reach out to unresponsive sellers avoiding your phone calls when buyers are ready and more!
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A Perfect Deal is About Looking for Big Equity, Big Cash Flow, or Both!
The Transactional Real Estate Investor Show with Blair Halver
In this episode, hear about what is going on in the market and note all the housing opportunities now out there. Learn how to approach sellers asking too much for their house, sellers with individual loans, and sellers who haven’t figured out their asking price but want to sell.
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Don’t Spend for a House Needing Work When Buying Subject-to!
The Transactional Real Estate Investor Show with Blair Halver
In this episode, learn how to approach sellers who: have private loans, are behind on payments and are in foreclosure, and those who want cash to cover the work that needs to be done in their house.
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Make a Real Estate Deal Step by Step and No Step Out of Order!
The Transactional Real Estate Investor Show with Blair Halver
In this episode, learn the sequence of steps you must take to make a deal work. Discover how to approach sellers with non-conforming properties who only want to cash out, and those who are in foreclosure with a USDA loan. Hear about a deal with lots of exit strategies, about buying and selling with seller financing, and how to deal with sellers walking away from a contract a couple of days before closing.
info_outlineAre you interested in the housing business? Learn how to become a real estate transactional engineer with Blair and Jeff. They share many strategies and ways to find success when hunting real estate deals and making money. One tip: always have meaningful conversations with sellers!
This episode covers a lot of ground on real estate matters. Discover how to find comps for a house and a horse barn on 24 acres. Learn how to buy a property that has a tax lien where there is a good opportunity for a terms deal, and how to work out a deal involving a USD $14k mortgage reinstatement plus another USD $7k to satisfy the HOA and a private lender.
Finally, hear what they have to say about the average number of conversations you should have with buyers before finding a prospect. When is the right time to negotiate numbers in a deal? Hear if people are still moving forward with down payments in the pandemic, and how to run marketing campaigns to get a lower cost per lead.
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In this episode we covered:
- 00:00 – Start-up
- 00:46 – Finding comps for a house and a horse barn on 24 acres
- 03:04 – How to approach sellers closing within 90 days when we have said we can close right away. How long does it take to close a deal for a property on 24 acres?
- 06:23 – When to negotiate numbers in a deal
- 09:01 – Average number of conversations to have with buyers before finding a prospect, where Blair and Jeff’s leads are coming from, and whether people are still moving forward with down payments
- 13:33 – About a client doing business from abroad
- 14:34 – How to buy a property that has a tax lien where there is a good opportunity for a terms deal
- 21:08 – Working out a deal involving $14k to reinstate a mortgage plus another $7k to satisfy the HOA and a private lender
- 29:50 – How to run marketing campaigns to get a lower cost per lead and the reason for no leads coming in when spending $30 bucks
- 33:02 – About dealing with a new attorney for an owner-finance deal and how to approach them when taking title at land trust
- 38:05 – About homestead and a seller saying a title officer is insisting somebody else should be added to a deed to remove them
- 46:07 – About a client’s first remote wholesale deal
- 48:17 – Wrap-up
About Blair:
Blair is the founder and creator of Dealbot, a motivated seller lead generation company. He has managed nearly $2mm in marketing spend and generated over 100,000 motivated seller leads. He also buys and sells houses himself in the Winston-Salem and Charlotte, NC markets. In the past year, he has acquired nearly $3mm in cash flowing rental properties with zero money out of his pocket.
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