Driving for dollars is the practice of physically driving through neighborhoods to spot distressed or neglected properties, overgrown yards, boarded windows, deferred maintenance, vacancy, that signal a potentially motivated seller, then turning those finds into deals.
Log in to followBefore I put time into this method I keep trying to price it honestly, and I come at it from the capital side. A pulled list of absentee owners with high equity in one zip runs me…
Thinking about this from the capital side rather than doing it myself. If a driver covers say 60 to 80 addresses per hour in a dense grid and you pay $20 an hour plus mileage, you…
Both houses are on the same block. One has plywood over a front window and a tarp held down with tires on the back half of the roof. The other looks fine at a glance except the la…
This keeps coming up as the thing you do when you have no marketing budget, and I've heard it from enough people that I want to know what it actually costs before I ever try it. F…
I read houses for a living from the framing side, so I tried using that on a driving list instead of mailing everything at once. 90 addresses logged over six weeks in an older tra…
I have about 4,200 addresses logged across six zip codes, built up over roughly nine months of routes. Every address goes into the same five-touch mail sequence. What I'm looking…
Third Saturday out and my list is bloated. I photograph anything with peeling paint and a full mailbox, which means I came home with 41 addresses and maybe 9 of them are actually…
I went out for two hours and wrote down 11 houses and honestly I'm not sure any of them count. One had knee-high grass. One had a rolled-up newspaper thing on the porch but the ca…
I've done this four Saturdays running and I want someone to tell me it's not a hobby. Setup. Rural county about 90 minutes out, land and the occasional beat up house on acreage. I…
I've been mapping out a route for a few older neighborhoods near me and I've got about 40 addresses logged so far, mostly overgrown yards and one house with plywood on a side wind…
I finally stopped reading and drove. Three hours Saturday morning, one older neighborhood on the edge of town where the houses are 1950s ranches and about a third of them have bee…
I've been circling strategies for months and driving is the one I can start on Saturday with no budget. What I haven't settled is what I'm supposed to do with a property if I get…