Tim Bell explains how process servers who deliver legal paperwork can become lead sources for property deals. A sheriff's deputy filtered service lists to identify people in financial trouble, and following those contacts helped one of his students acquire several properties from motivated sellers.
Alright, the next one here, process servers. Now, process servers are people who serve legal processes to other people. Some legal processes in America require a face to face, a person to person, a human being to human being service. So they have to give them the paperwork. You've probably seen it on TV where they hand some paperwork to somebody and say, you've been served. Okay. Now, typically when people are having a legal process served against them, they're having a bad day, not a good day. Okay. I have a student who lives in Idaho and her husband is a sheriff's deputy. And in her town, the sheriff's deputies serve all the legal processes. Why? Because they have a badge and a gun. Yeah. And so what he does is he gets that list each week and he goes out, he serves the legal process. If the people are kind of scary or kind of shady or sketchy or whatever, he crosses out the name and the address on the list with a big magic marker, black magic marker. If they seem to be okay and they're just alright and they're not dangerous or anything, he leaves their name on the list. Then at the end of the week, he hands her the list so that she can go out and she calls on those people. She's made arrangements for several properties over the last few years because she's followed him around talking with these people. I mean, let's face it, if somebody's having a legal process served against them, that could just be the tip of the iceberg in terms of their problems. And they could have financial problems and other problems that may cause them to have you to have them have a need to have you purchase their house. Okay, so that's another one.
