Is there any chance of obtaining the approximate age of the houses being listed?

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Is there any chance of obtaining the approximate age of the houses being listed?

That would be a question that you'd want to ask the seller after you purchase the lead for insanely low prices.

As I'm sure you're accutely aware, the more information that you know about a deal, the more that information is worth. For example, if I told you about an estate sale house that had an EASY $100,000 profit in it, and all you had to do was paint/carpet, how much would it be worth to you? I'd venture to say $1,000 to $10,000, and you might even end up splitting the deal with the right person, making the cost for that information $50,000.

On the other hand, I've regularly paid $5 for a polaroid and a tax office printout of houses in need of repair, even though there was no phone numbers, email address, or any idea if the owner wanted to sell the house. It's more than worth it to pay the $5 for the lead, because you will surely find one deal out of 100 leads like this (which puts your cost at $500/deal, and I'm guessing that you'd pay AT LEAST $500 for a lead that you closed on.) Coincidentally, Dolf De Roos (Robert Kiyosaki's real estate advisor) teaches that you should expect to look at 100 deals in the process of finding one that you will actually do. Your goal should be to buy leads as quickly as possible on IBuyHousesLeads.com so that you can get through the 99 "dogs" as quickly as possible to find the real gem.

At IBuyHousesLeads.com, we strive to find a balance between the two extremes. We have multiple leads a day with $50,000-$100,000+ in equity and we have multiple leads a day where the homeowner wants full value. We charge the same for both extremes, which is very good for you and bad for us. We give you enough information to justify paying $50 or more for the lead, and you are only committed to buying one lead at a time.

In addition, if you don't like the price...just wait a couple of hours. Since our prices drop regularly during business hours, all you need to do is wait awhile. This, of course, is assuming that another investor doesn't buy your "diamond" lead for a measly $1 more than you're willing to pay. (Talk about an expensive dollar!)

If you're hesitant to buy a lead because there isn't enough information, I believe you're discounting the value of your time. Think of all the time and money you will save by buying your leads a-la-carte rather than spending dozens of hours and hundreds of dollars doing other marketing. You don't have to spend 20-40 minutes on the phone...you know within seconds of purchasing the lead(s) whether or not it's a deal you want.

Even if you don't find any value in a particular lead doesn't mean that nobody else will. Do you have any realtors who pay finder's fees? You can usually find local realtors who will pay $30-$50 per lead OR $500 per listing. Do you have any other local investors who do subject-to, lease-option deals, or short sales who pay finder's fees? How about bad/no credit mortgage brokers? If the homeowner has to sell because of financial difficulties, they may be interested in buying another house. Remember, be creative.

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