40 Option-Contracts a week
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Another week has passed and I spent about 15 hours working on my offer-making machine. Good news; I’ve got it done and it’s ready to kick-out offers (on expired MLS listings). Bad news; the Option-Contract that I was planning to enclose as part of my offer is garbage.
Originally, I was thinking of just mailing a short letter with a complete standard MLS contract. Then I had a change of heart and felt the Keep-It-Simple-Stupid principle would be best. So, I’m opting to send a short letter with an option-contract, perhaps the simplified approach will be better. I had found this very simple Option-Contract on a forum about two weeks ago and I made some tweaks to it to fit my preferences. I setup the mail-merge with it and my cover letter, I was feeling like the best thing that ever happened to real estate. The best that ever did it. So my gut told me just to shoot over the option-contract to my lawyer just to cover my bases…and I’m glad I did. I received an email response that was about 5 paragraphs long, the cliff-notes basically explaining that the document was trash. So…I’ll be stalled on the 40 offers until I get my shiny new option contract back from my lawyer.
The beautiful thing is that I have about 500 expireds to choose from. I could just pace the offers at 40 each week or maybe just push out more per week to make up for lost time. This has been a weekly goal for about a month now.
Once I have my new option-contract, perhaps I’ll post in detail of how I created this automated system I now have. Surely at least one person may learn from it or get an idea for something better.
P.S.
I’m going to step-up my fitness regimen a bit. I was looking at a measurement that I made back in January of 2009, and back then I had a weight of 210 lbs and percent body fat of 19%. I then measured myself again about a week ago and now have a weight of 200 lbs and a percent body fat of 17.2%. Not much of a change. However, I haven’t really been pushing that hard with workouts. It’s kind of hard to do so when you’re not specifically training for something. Very hard. I can’t wait until I have time for triathlons and such.
- Peace Out
