subject: Use Networking To Find More Potential Buyers For Your Home [print this page] There are always several people looking for houses in the same general area, and knowing that fact helps me whenever I want to find people to buy my house. I can learn who is in the market for houses in my area by talking to other real estate investors. Since I'm an investor, too, I like to let other investors know whenever I have a house for sale because one of them might be interested in buying it. The other reason I tell them is because they usually have their own houses for sale and they might know buyers would want to buy my house. When their house doesn't work for a buyer, maybe mine will. We can always help each other out some way.
Now I'd like to explain something that very few people know or even consider very often. As a result of posting ads online I find prospects to buy my house, but I also find other people who are not interested in my house but they could very well be interested in another investors' house. I keep their names, email addresses and phone numbers to share with other sellers so they will share information with me as well. I'll bet you are asking yourself how that system could work for you since you're probably not an investor, right? That is an important question to answer for you to follow up on my ideas in this article.
Remember, when you need to sell a home, you have access to real estate investors, too. Investors are easy to find by looking at classified ads, watching for billboards and researching the yellow pages. Another way is to contact the local chapter of REIA, the Real Estate Investors Association, which is active in most major cities now. You can get in touch with dozens of real estate investors who routinely buy and sell houses, and who have lists of buyers that they might agree to share with you if you share your list with them.
I think you'll be surprised to find that real estate investors are easy to talk to and very interested to obtain the names and phone numbers you collected from local buyers looking to buy a house, especially if your home is located in the same area as theirs. You can participate in all these marketing activities whether or not your house is listed with an agent because you have the right to find a buyer on your own. All the effort you put into finding a buyer will be worth it when you get your proceeds check on closing day.
