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 followNotes and paper still confuse me most of the time, and bird dogging keeps getting recommended to me as the place to start because it needs no capital. I want to test that claim be…
I've got a list of about forty addresses I'm interested in for my own land reasons, and a neighbor keeps telling me I should be handing the house-shaped ones to a buyer he knows.…
I'm about two thirds through the pre-license coursework and I have four vacant houses on a street near me that nobody seems to be doing anything about. Two have notices taped in t…
Two weeks in and I've got a conversation going with a buyer who does maybe fifteen houses a year. He said something I can't work out. For my first three leads, no finder's fee, bu…
I'm planning my first purchase carefully and scouting is the part I can start on this month without money. What I can't decide is how many buyers to build toward. The one-investor…
Foreclosure filings were up 26 percent year over year in the first quarter per ATTOM, starts up 20, repossessions up 45. So the list is getting longer and every scout I talk to ha…
An investor I underwrite for pays his scouts two ways and lets them pick. Either $500 flat on any lead he takes to contract, or 5 percent of his net profit when he closes. Same gu…