404’s and Heartbreak
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I know I’m not moving at a slow pace, but things are taking WAY too long for me to accomplish. Part of this is due to the fact that I don’t have an assistant. I can’t afford the competent ones at the moment and am done dealing with the cheap talent (you get what you pay for, DUH). I wish I could find someone to work for me that would take a promissory note. Like take 10% of each deal I complete, that sounds like a more than fair offer to me. I’m not sure if I’d have any takers though. And to be honest, the next assistant I hire would have to be through a temp agency. I would love to outsource the screening of applicants, because that secretarial stuff is a waste of my time.
I finally have my 404 page ready to go for my buyer-list campaign. At first I was having issues getting all of the graphical content to appear and the form to submit correctly on my HTML page. I had Google’d and Google’d and couldn’t find what the issue might have been. It then dawned on me to contact a fellow RE Investor that I know also has an IT background, so I reached out to Scott Costello on Facebook. He mentioned that I would need the full URL’s in my HTML, so once I converted all of my file paths that were specific to my site’s domain (/Graphics/buy.jpg) to the full URL (http://www.schwaps.com/Graphics/buy.jpg), I was good. Apparently, you have to treat 404 pages a bit differently. This is why I’m not in love with programming. Had it not been for Scott, I probably would’ve spent another 3 hours or more trying to figure that out. Thanks again, if you’re reading this! You can’t deny the power of Social Networking! So check it out, if you go to www.schwaps.com/TypeWhateverYouWantHere you get my wholesale buyer page. So the letters sent will include the names of Landlords:
www.schwaps.com/BillGates
www.schwaps.com/DonaldTrump
you get the idea.
I’m about half way done with the manual process of gathering my Section-8 landlord contact info. Once I’m done with that, I’ll gather some cash buyer info from the MLS, and I already have the information from the Central Illinois Apartment Association members from their website.
*Tangent* If you are a member of any type of club or association, please beware that your contact information is most likely readily available on the web. After a simple Google search, I can get beaucoup contact info and so can everyone else. Good for me, sucks for you! Just an advisory if you’re an extremely private person.*End Tangent*
I’ll shoot to have the buyer-list campaign complete by Saturday. I still haven’t gone through all of the leads that I received from last weekend. I pulled 2 extremely hot ones out from the 20 and made offers, but there are some others still in there worth pursuing and others that aren’t and definitely want retail (I have a Realtor that will love those).
So much to do. But I guess like they say, just eat an elephant one bite at a time.
- Peace Out
