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 followBeen riding along on driving routes with an investor friend since summer, mostly to work out where I fit. He wants contracts. I kept noticing that most of the addresses he throws…
Started with zero budget and a used sedan. Nine Saturday mornings, two to three hours each, three adjacent zips I picked because the housing stock is all 1950s to 1970s and the ow…
Four months, and I'm writing this down while the receipts are still in front of me. Drove 612 addresses into the app between October and February. 380 came back with a mailing add…
Small numbers but they're mine so here they are. Collapsed carport on a 1,340 square foot ranch, roof of the carport sitting on what used to be a car. Grass to my knee. I logged i…
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…