A bird dog locates promising investment properties, distressed houses, motivated sellers, off-market opportunities, and passes the lead to an investor who does the actual deal, in exchange for a finder's fee.
Log in to followI frame houses for a living, so I'm on residential streets five days a week and I see the vacant ones before the mail carrier does. Started passing addresses to three local invest…
Five months of pulling addresses off my own job sites and off the pre-foreclosure and tax-delinquent lists at the county. 41 leads passed to four investors. 3 closed. I got $1,500…
Different question from my other thread, more basic. Before I had any agreement with anybody, I'd been writing down addresses in a notebook for about a year and a half because fra…
I manage 140 units across 22 owners. In the last two months three of those owners have said some version of "I'm getting too old for this" to me on the phone. One is a 6 unit buil…
Over about three weeks of driving the same four streets on my way home I've written down 11 houses. Tarps, waist-high grass, mail visibly stacked in one door, a code enforcement n…
A guy who does yard work in a neighborhood I like emailed me offering what he calls off-market leads. His terms: $400 per lead, paid before he tells me the address, and he says he…
Four deals in and my problem is deal flow, so I told a guy at a local meetup I'd pay $2,000 per closing for addresses in my two zip codes. He's enthusiastic. In three weeks he's s…
An investor I met through a contractor I know sent me six addresses and asked me to go look at each one, take exterior photos, note whether it looks occupied, and tell him if ther…
Career change in progress, zero deals, and I sent my first real lead to an investor I met at a meetup. Small single family, garage door caved in, grass to my knee, notice taped to…