Real Estate Investing and Marketing

It is such a pleasure to get emails every week from students like this:

Received: from [68.45.15.193] by web54205.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:21:54 PDT
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:21:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Preston Pickett
Subject: Re: FW: Rent Pricing???
To: Duncan Wierman

Good Morning Duncan,
I just wanted to say thank you for all the help and guidance you’ve provided me over this last year. Your the only guru that returns e-mails at alarming rates, gives great advice, gets back to people quickly even though we are under stress. I can’t thank you enough. I have learned alot under your gu=idance. You have truly been a blessing. I can’t thank you enough. I am very grateful and really appreciate you..

Sincerely,

Preston Pickett

P.s Nick has been getting back to me thanks to you. I have made alot of contact using his course. I have a meeting/lunch with the Director for the handicapped population here in Phila, I have a meeting with Congressman Joe Sestak and his people, I met with the Vets, and I have a swim party I was invited to, to meet with the Director for the Truancy Kids. It has been some ride so far but fun I must say!!!!!!!

This is a new age of blooming technology and internet networking. Everyone seems to stay connected to the web world more than ever.  People are connected at school, work, and anywhere and everywhere. You can tweet, update statuses, and upload photos either from the computer or straight from your phone. This makes staying connected so much more fun and convenient.

If you ever wanted to have your business get free advertising then this is the best time  in history since you have  so many non-stop social networking sites that can assist you. It has now made marketing even more personable than before which is a great marketing tool.  The key is to be active in the online world and to constantly promote and market the service or product you are selling. Even though you still will need to promote offline too do not think that internet marketing is easier. Internet marketing can be very time consuming too. Yes, it is conveniently done from the computer but it requires a lot of work on your part. So how can you get better at internet marketing? So how you get people to like your fan pages and any other pages you have out there?

Some Cool Technology:

There are software programs which can help you with your advertising and increase people “liking” your pages such as www.wildfireapp.com.

This software application captivates people by engaging them in different contests and competitions. The idea is to get people on the web excited and passionate about something which has a direct relationship with your business.  This software allows  your campaign formats to be available on all the social networking sites.   Everything begins with one simple click and networking. Read more…

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I found out today that Karen  Hanover was asking other gurus how much money I have so she can file a 10 million dollar lawsuit against me.  She is claiming that I have slandered and defamed her and because of this  she has suffered financially.

ROFL ..  Hey, Karen ,  READ MY SITE DISCLAIMER:

Karen, Why Commencing A Defamation Action Might Not Be A Good Idea For You, But you can try …. While you may be angry enough to file a lawsuit, there are some very good reasons why actions for defamation may not be a good idea.

Read more…

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I hate to say it, but I told you so. This below email just came in from one of my students who did some further investigations:

His Complete Email to Me..

Hi Duncan,

I saw on your blog that you were not supporting Karen Hanover’s launch and the overall lack of due diligence. Ha. A couple of months ago I did some due diligence on her  after hearing her speak at a conference here in San Diego in January. Your intuition was dead-on.

The “associations”  Karen Hanover  touts as being a member of CCREA NAIA (and the self storage one SSEI?) are all her own creation.  In February she had the balls to create a press release to tout how the CCREA had awarded her real estate course its #1 ranking! I love tenacity and perseverance, but fraud is disgusting and seeing how there are so many dubious characters in this business, it just bugs me.

Anyway I sent an email to Sperry Van Ness’s Human Resources department and got back the enclosed email. According to SVN she has never worked there and their attorneys are looking into it. ))) I have not called Marcus & Millichap.

Your points on the blog are so well taken. Everybody signs up and does the birddog routine but the gurus can’t or don’t want to do all the deals and thus cherry-pick the list. Rick Wheat who with Jeff Kaller are doing their scandalous bird dog system told me back in 2005 when he was Ron Legrand’s acquisition head that in that year they looked at over 1100 deals submission and actually closed on 14. So you would have to submit 80 deals of average quality before expecting to do one. I don’t think the normal man on the street has put this math together, but you did in your blog and I thank you for getting the word out to the masses.

EXPOSED

Next time you get emails about a new course from a Real Estate Guru, do some digging first. Don’t believe everything you hear. YOU BEEN HAD! I hope you can get your money back. Good Luck

Update 13 June 2010:

Seems I upset the apple cart! IF I have stated any incorrect information I will publicly state I was wrong on my blog and apologize here. At this time, I have not received any evidence to the contrary. I am now being threatened by a lawsuit because I provide a medium for people to feedback about the course. The site remains open for rebuttal and other points of view.

I received the following text messages from Karen Hanover asking me to remove the post. What an un-American thing to do! What happened to freedom of speech?

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See behind the scenes of the Commercial Foreclosure GoldRush Launch..

First, keep in mind that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has Guidelines concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising. ( this means email marketing too ) Keep in mind that 99% of the people who endorsed this commercial foreclosure course NEVER did a commercial deal with the course. This course was solely promoted to you NOT on the quality of its content, but because of the amount of prizes that could be won.  DC and Karen used incentives to get other real estate (information) gurus to promote the product on a mass launch to create false hype.    This is very unethical in my opinion, and at the same time breaks the law in regards to Advertising. In short you have been scammed.

The funnier part about this is the fact that in the online forum where everyone keeps up to date with results, their was accusation of theft and not adhering to the rules to win the prizes. Read more…

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The Wierman Group, a firm that markets 21st century tools for real estate investors, has debuted 3 new iPhone apps that will help investors save time and make smarter deals.

The Real Estate Investor Offer Calculator is an app that acts as a personal real estate assistant by automating calculations of the Maximum Allowed Offer (MAO), in order to ensure that the investor will make a profit in a particular deal.  This calculator takes into account property price, repairs, closing costs, profit, and other factors in order to instantly determine how much an investor should spend to purchase a property in order to make a profit. By using the Real Estate Investor Offer Calculator, investors can quickly determine whether or not to invest a particular property based on that location’s eventual profitability.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/re-offer-calculator/id368197435?mt=8

Next, the REO Deal Hunter application automates the search for properties in foreclosure. Each time an investor signs in to this app, they will be able to find the exact contact address for deeply discounted properties.  Investors can use this tool to learn of foreclosure properties in advance, and, unlike other similar free applications listed in the Apple app store, the REO Deal Hunter does not require the investor to subscribe to a web based foreclosure property search service.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reo-hunter/id367316645?mt=8

Finally, the Real Estate Investor Alert application will search by zip code for deeply discounted properties that are currently on the market. On a given day, there may be numerous properties on the market that can be acquired for less than 50 cents on the dollar.  It’s also possible to acquire these properties without investing any of your own money or exhausting your personal credit resources. Using the Real Estate Investor Alert app will point you in the right direction toward finding and purchasing these types of properties.

itms://itunes.apple.com/us/app/re-investor-alerts/id368198665?mt=8

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