Accountability Monday
Old Goals from the week of June 29th:
1. Contact Title companies in town for information on the real estate transactions in town involving deeds without mortgages. I’ll find my cash-buyers this way. (Done. Although none have returned my emails, perhaps I’ll call)
2. Acquire a pre-foreclosure list from either the County Recorder or SalesTeamLive (Failed.)
3. Have my local VA create my handwritten envelopes to those in pre-foreclosure; send mailings to these people. (Failed. Dependency on Goal #2)
4. Find a programmer to optimize both of my WordPress blogs; schwaps.com/blog and justinmcclelland.com. I cannot figure out why they move so slow. Actually, I’ll try updating to WP2.8 and if that doesn’t make a difference then, I’ll try a programmer. (Done. Updating to WP2.8 made little difference, I’m in touch with programmers now)
5. Order the 100 bandit signs and stakes. I’m not making signs again myself unless I absolutely have to, huge time drain. (Done. SignWarehouse.com is a great place for signs and very cheap)
6. Create a list of local investors in Champaign-County, call other bandit signs, paper ads, etc. (Done.)
7. Order some flyers that look like real $100 bills. I’ve heard that these are extremely effective, I will give these a try. (Failed. Just plain slacked on not placing this order.)
New Goals for the week of July 6th:
1. Ramp up the remaining aspects of the advertising plan; flyers, post cards, business cards, news ads, etc.
2. Acquire a pre-foreclosure list from either the County Recorder or SalesTeamLive.
3. Follow-up with local Title Companies
4. Find additional Realtors to work with. I’m only working with two at the moment. I think one of them has been avoiding me since our first meeting, after she found out I was new to investing. The other seems to be out of town often. I need to not limit myself here.
5. Contact and perhaps arrange appointments to meet all of the other local investors. There is a good possibility that business can be done between us all.
6. Find out how I can legally build a birddog army. But not only birddogs who find property, but more-so birddogs who can help find property buyers. Find new lawyer to speak this over with.
7. Purchase some additional stationary for the Ad campaign and a reflective vest for safety when putting out bandit signs at 3AM (this also will give a greater appearance of legitimacy, then maybe the cops won’t stop me again). Make these purchases through my Net30 vendors, so that I can continue to build business credit.
- Justin
