Virtual Wholesaling Is A Reality

Here at Skip Genie we talk to virtual wholesalers quite often. Some of our clients live as far away as Canada and make a comfortable living by virtual wholesaling properties in the United States, but when a lot of people first hear about virtual wholesaling they don’t believe it’s possible. In fact, some people we […]

Powerful Tip On Following Up With Elusive Home sellers

What do you do if a home seller ignores your direct mail and won’t answer the phone when you call? Better yet…let’s say you knock on the door and they still won’t answer you, but you’re almost sure they are living at the property… If you’ve done everything you can do to contact home seller […]

Introduction to Texting Homeowners

More and more often we are getting responses from leads that we’ve already called several times after we text them. If they don’t answer our voicemail, or if we get a phone number with a full mailbox, then we follow up with a text message. A lot of our leads who didn’t reply to our […]

What Job Qualifications Should A Good Cold Caller Have?

As real estate investors use cold calling to scale their business, there inevitably comes a time when it isn’t practical for them to make cold calls anymore. This means that it’s time to hire one or more cold callers so that you can better spend your time. The position of a cold caller is an […]

What If The Homeowner or Heir Is Incarcerated?

Every once in awhile you’ll come across a property where the owner (or heir) is doing time in prison. You can still buy the property, but there are a few extra hoops you’ll need to jump through in order to get the deal done.   Find out where they are incarcerated   The first thing […]

Put Driving for Dollars on Steroids

Driving for dollars is an excellent way to make good money, especially if you maximize its potential by combining it with Dialing for Dollars. You see, way too many investors are sending mail to the exact same properties, and many of the high-margin deals you find while you’re driving for dollars are non-owner-occupied. Returned mail […]

$150,000 Assignment Fee

Skip Genie cofounder Larry Higgins found this lead and tried to get in contact with the owner of the property, but when he looked them up our skip tracing software had informed him that the property owner had died. After some more digging, he found out they owed like $30,000 in taxes. This was in […]

Skip Tracing – 3 Common Mistakes People Make

Skip tracing can be a lucrative and very low cost marketing medium, but if you don’t know what you’re doing it’s inevitable that you’ll make some mistakes. There isn’t necessarily a steep learning curve to skip tracing, but there is a learning curve. Here at Skip Genie, we’ve been skip tracing for a long time. […]

Dealing With Squatters – This Squatter Improved The Property

We had found a property with about $40,000 worth of tax issues that was worth $90,000 to $100,000. At some point it was a deceased vacant property. We contacted the homeowner, and they were going to just deed the property over to us. Her and her brother had grown up in the home, and they […]