Two markets picked, 3,400 records pulled, nobody dialed
I pulled lists in two mid-size metros about 900 and 1,400 miles from me. Both are places I picked because the buyer forums there look busy and price points are under $200k.
What I have: 3,400 absentee and tax-delinquent records across the two, skip traced at about 12 cents a record, so roughly $410 spent. Texting platform is $99 a month, dialer is another $99. I set aside $4,000 total for the first three months of marketing and I have maybe two months of that left after the software.
What I don't have: anyone on the ground in either place. No contractor, no agent, no one who can open a door. I also have not had a lawyer look at my assignment contract, I pulled it off a course.
The decision in front of me is whether to run both markets at once or shut one down and put the whole $4,000 into one. Running both feels like it doubles my odds of finding a motivated seller. It also means two sets of rules I haven't read, two contracts, two sets of local buyers I don't know.
I have been in the analysis stage for a long time and I am trying to stop, so I would rather be told the thing I am getting wrong than told to keep researching.