Chris Prefontaine and Brandon explain why acquiring buyers is easier than sellers in real estate investing, but still demands discipline. About 80% of leads ignore directions, making a rigorous screening system essential. They recommend a Q&A with Nick, a buyer-screening expert, and point to free resources on Smart Real Estate Coach.
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It's the easier thing to procure. Sell is harder, right? Yeah. But it doesn't mean the process is easy, because it can be daunting if you don't follow the system, because you get barraged by 500 inquiries and 80% of them are wrecked because they can't follow directions. We'll repeat, but, you know, because they're going to like repeat it. Go ahead. Sorry, Brandon. No, you're fine. Seems like 90% you're going to make action, you're talking about is sellers. Yeah. The buyer side, it sounds like it may be the easier side of it. Um, could we dive in at all? So vetting process, screening. We can do that with Q&A. Um, the reason I'm pausing is it's the easier thing to procure. Sellers are, right? Yeah. But it doesn't mean it processes easy, because it can be daunting if you don't follow the system, because you get barraged by 500 inquiries and And 80% of them are wrecked because they can't follow directions. So you got to follow the system, but we can have Nick do a Q&A just on the buyer side with us and Nick's like a master of it and Nick will get the best out of it. So we can do that this afternoon before we wrap, part of the Q&A. Not sure where to get started? Go to smartrealestatecoach.com/getgoing for free books, strategy calls, and a whole bunch more. We're going to help you get going the wicked smart way. We've been after this for over a decade doing exactly that.
Especially because it's like 4 or 5 of you that have a property you want to do.
That point, actually. Yeah, let's do that. Let's— we can— as long as he doesn't have a podcast, which I think we can fit in between if he does. That would—
Cornelius was taken. I talked to the— he's going through some medical stuff right now, so I talked with seller. I've been talking with seller all night. And they're kind of high-end. And he has somebody that was renting short-term rental property. I mean, that wants it. That wants it. And he said, can I put it through your screening process? Of course. So, and it should. Yep.