Tyson Smith walks through driving for dollars, a low-cost way to find off-market deals: scout neighborhoods for distressed homes with cracked windows or damaged roofs, knock on the door, and if no one answers, use Fast People Search to find the owner's phone number and call them.
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What's the best way to find off-market properties without paying so much money? Here's what I'm going to tell you. In life, you always have to pay for things, but you can pay in two different ways. Number one is with time. Number two is with money. So if you don't have a lot of money and you want to find off-market properties, the best way I would say to do is to drive for dollars. And that's where you're going to drive around your area and you're going to look for houses that look like they're in poor condition. You're looking for things like cracked windows, roof that's fucked up, landscaping isn't being maintained. Then you're going to want to go knock on their door, see if they answer. If they do, ask them if they want to sell. If not, go to Fast People Search, enter in their address and give them a call and see if they want to sell. You got to do that, and that's a great way to get your first deal, so then you can reinvest that money into better marketing.