The Right Tool...

Of course this post will make any guy cringe. However, the point of this post is to illustrate how important it is to use the right tool for the right job (or...really not try the job at all!).

In fear of devolving this post into a vulgar double entendre, the real story of using the "wrong tool" in question was used by a young man to perform what would expectantly result in an unsuccessful effort to give his "own tool" a circumcision.

Ouch!!! No really!

After the aborted surgery, the young man was rushed to a hospital at Stevenage, Hertfordshire (England). The wound was disinfected and cleansed before he was given a bed in an observation ward.

"This is something we would advise men never to attempt," a medic said, "The results can be quite horrific and long-lasting and have quite an affect on a man's sexual performance."

Oh, really...? "advise never to attempt!" Such words of wisdom.

So, how does this apply to real estate investing? Well, for one, I've seen enough newbie investors try to create/use "one-size-fits-all" negotiations and presentations that sent them out the door in a bloody mess of rejected offers.

That's why having/using the right tools to qualify/disqualify prospects as soon as possible in order to produce successful outcomes is vital. Otherwise, we get promises of the moon by passive-aggressive, codependent sellers that want to please us more than they want to sell, or.... we get a punch in the nose. Whichever, we lose the deal.

Meanwhile, we can burn out real fast knocking our heads against unmotivated seller's skulls! So why pitch those who don't initiate a sign of motivation in the first place?

The answer is we don't want to. However, in order to avoid this we need to use another "special" tool. This is a tool that eliminates most of the Sellers that ask retail prices, have options, can afford real estate agents, are maintaining their homes, and then look forward to rejecting our profitable offers (otherwise known as "low-ball" offers).

BTW, unmotivated Sellers just LOVE to turn down our profitable offers. These are a DIFFERENT species of sellers.

So what is this "special" tool? The tool is the thing that not only helps us uncover the motivated sellers, but gets them to call us first, before they think to call anybody else.

Okay the tool is...(drum roll, please)

The U.S. Postal Service!

Yes, using the mail system to market ourselves to the most likely prospects is the BEST tool we have available. It's private, confidential and "below the radar" of nearly all of our competitors. Mailing to the most likely prospects is likely to keep us from getting bloody noses, and/or empty promises.

The challenge then is creating the best mailing list. Not just a mailing list, but the BEST one. One that has the most likely prospects. Ones that don't need extra "warming up". One's that just need to believe that we're not showing up to scalp them. Remember we can sheer and sheer, but only skin...once. So, we only do a nice, comfortable, enjoyable, satisfying coat sheering. This way the sheered will recommend us to others.

The next question revolves around the definitions of what the most likely prospect are that we put on the mailing list. That is the subject of a chapter in my new investing course coming out soon.

Jay