A short YouTube tutorial by Tim Bell on tactics to find real estate opportunities. In this segment he advises asking agents for lists of withdrawn/sale-failed/canceled MLS listings—properties that were previously on the market but taken off—and then contacting those owners directly because they may still need to sell.
Now here's another one that you may have already thought of, but you may not have. This can be a good one. Ask your real estate agent to give you a list of withdrawn listings. Sometimes they call them sale failed listings, withdrawn listings, canceled listings. There's lots of different names for them, but basically these are houses that were on the market for a period of time and for whatever reason, they the owner took them off the market. Okay. Again, the reason they started on the MLS in the first place is because those people had a need to sell their house. Now, obviously something changed, but it's possible that they may still have a need to sell their house. So get that withdrawn listings, that sale failed listing list, and contact those owners directly.
