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've spent so long in analysis mode that I've started analyzing the software instead of the houses, which I recognize is worse. The subscription apps do address logging, owner loo…
I did a controlled version of this last month because I couldn't get a straight answer anywhere. Same 2.5 hours, same afternoon light, two different sides of a 1950s tract area wi…
I mostly buy land and hold it, so my driving is different from a house route, but I've been arguing about this with two people in my market and neither of them will budge, so I wa…
Ninety addresses logged over six weeks, split into two buckets after I did the owner research. Bucket one is visibly vacant. Boarded windows, mail piled at the door, weeds through…
Slow decisions are my whole personality so I've been sitting on 60 addresses for two months without contacting anyone, which is its own answer. Before I do something, I want to he…
Before 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…
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'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…