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 followI read documents for a living so I'm coming at this backwards. I understand what a purchase agreement is. What I don't understand is the middle part of driving for dollars. Someon…
I'm doing thin-margin stuff and trying not to add cost, but a guy at a meetup told me driving for dollars is fine but the second you sign a contract and assign it you need a real…
Few deals in. My route is basically maxed, I can't get more hours in the car without giving up the parts of the business that actually close things. Every answer I find online say…
Construction background, so the spotting part is easy for me, I can read a house from the street. Now I've got 60 addresses on my phone and I'm stuck. I tried Zillow and it shows…
Capital side, still deciding where to put money, and I'm trying to understand this method as something I might fund rather than do. A data vendor can hand me every property in a m…
Running a two-person route in a metro of about 900k. We log roughly 400 addresses a month between us. Skip tracing at about 18 cents a record, but my usable hit rate (correct owne…
I've been reading through everything here twice and I still can't get a straight answer on this bit. Say I've driven a street, logged a house with a collapsed porch and a full mai…
The plan is a service business around real estate, no buying yet, but I want to understand the tooling because half my future clients will be using it. Every video mentions an app…
My guys are in neighborhoods all day anyway for service calls. It seems obviously wasteful that they drive past twenty rough looking houses a day and nobody writes anything down.…
Driving for dollars keeps coming up as the task nobody wants to do themselves, and I want to build a service around that side of real estate. So my thought was to drive routes and…
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…
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 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…
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 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…