Yesterday, I tested one strategy that I had in my mind for couple days. I hired freelancer to post ad on Craigslist into all CL website of each state I plan to buy MHP. The ad was posted to Gigs (Domestic) section.
Title is “$1000 for leads. Mobile Home Parks for Sale” and the message
“I am looking for mobile home parks for sale. If you know any mobile home park for sale or you see sign for sale let me know. I will pay you referral fee $1000+ if I buy the property. Email me for more information.” Also, I add money picture. See the example below
This seems to be a good strategy. I would think one version of this strategy might work better in terms of saving time: pay significantly more (say $10K~ 50K depends on the park), if the prospects can help to purchase a park. I might end up to try this strategy in future.
@bridgeandbaseball I am just testing different strategies. Many people contacted me and even one commercial broker called me. I will keep everybody posted when I get a good lead out of this.
@GJS
I am still getting leads. Most people are interested how they can be help. I have typical reply email to tell them what I am looking for. I got around 10 leads out of 100-150 received emails.
***Tip. Include in your ad something like “Please do not send us or me leads from loopnet and/or mobile home park store” I receive many emails with links to those sites.
@Andriy_Boychuk, Andriy, I tried to hire a freelancer through Upwork (Odesk) to post the ad on CL in several cities, but Upwork did not allow me to hire someone because of a “policy violation”.
This is what Upwork said, “We’re writing because it appears as though a job you posted requests work considered spamming or deceptive by Upwork and other sites’ terms of services. Specifically, you want to post ads on Craigslist. This is against our Job Post policy, and the job has been removed.”
I followed up with Upwork, and explained it very clearly to the representative that I am recruiting for legitimate reasons, and not for spamming or deception. Still, Upwork did not allow me to hire a freelancer.
Any advice please? Where did you get your freelancer?
@GJS I would suggest posting the job in such a way that you are looking for an assistant that has experience with writing, craigslist and real estate ad management. Then use that person to do the posting. You are posting legitimately but craigslist can be very strict and Upwork likely just doesn’t want to get in trouble with them. Sometimes Upwork is all about the wording.
I use virtual assistants who are specialized in mobile home park skip-tracing/ lead generation to build lists of park owners with MHP name, Address, # of Spaces, Owner Entity, True Owner behind the entity/LLC, Owner Address, Phone # etc. You can then reach out to the MHP owners via cold calling and direct mailing campaign. They have done a great job thus far. I find it well worth the money and it saves me a lot of time. They use different websites to gather MHP informations. You can hire cold callers at the same time to dial the numbers to get a deal under contract. The VA’s I am currently using are from overseas and only $5 an hour.
I use virtual assistants who are specialized in mobile home park skip-tracing/ lead generation to build lists of park owners with MHP name, Address, # of Spaces, Owner Entity, True Owner behind the entity/LLC, Owner Address, Phone # etc. You can then reach out to the MHP owners via cold calling and direct mailing campaign. They have done a great job thus far. I find it well worth the money and it saves me a lot of time. They use different websites to gather MHP informations. You can hire cold callers at the same time to dial the numbers to get a deal under contract. The VA’s I am currently using are from overseas and they charge $5 an hour.
