Ok - so I went to Mturk.com and paid a dime each for ideas people could suggest on how we might get real estate leads. These are what they came up with. There were so many I'm not going to go through and edit them - so maybe some of them are brilliant, and maybe some of them are retarded. I guess it's like when I saw the gold panning booth at the fair! Without further ado, here is the Real Estate Lead bargain bin:



Real Estate Leads: A Bargain Bin of Ideas


I think a great way to get leads for a real estate agent would be to place ads in magazines and newletters geared towards senior citizens. Also another great way to get leads would be to place ads in magazines and newsletters geared towards,African - Americans, Latino- Americans and Asian -Americans. Also, many churches and other houses of worship may allow a realtor to place an ad in their newsletters and publications for a small fee or free. But perhaps the cheapest method would be word of mouth. a realtor should tell everyone he or she mets what they are doing.

Run seminars for investors who want to get started with RE investing.

Contact landlords who have property to rent to see if they would entertain offers on their properties even if the property is not formally on the market.

Review the list of recent evictions and see the landlords really want to continue with their investments.

Farm an area using the Post Office to deliver a post card each month to every residential address in the specific area.

Attend REIA meetings in the area. There are national lists of the meetings in a local area. Work with banks to dispose of their REO property. Work with banks to provide BPO (Broker Price Opinions) for a fee. Stay in contact so that any properties that do end on the books of the lender can be sold after being listed.

Run a property management service which also offers sale assistance. As a buyer's agent or when the investor wants to rightsize, downsize or otherwise sell off part or all of the portfolio.

A good way for a realtor to get new real estate leads, would be to creat a flyer with their name, company logo, and contact information, with a small description of any specialties they have in real estate. Little door hangers would work the best. Then target specific areas, and hang the flyers on all the doors in the neighborhood.

One way for Real Estate agents or Realtors to find prospective clients is through Real Estate Internet Marketing, whereby the agent or realtor creates their own website. A good place to find help with their site is http://www.renewsletter.com/Real-Estate-Internet-Marketing.xml

1. Place Ads in the Yellow page of the area. 2. Today, due to internet boom, placing real estate classified ads on the internet web site. 3. place your ad links in affiliate web page of an affiliater. 4. on television ads

One lady realtor is creating FREE DVDs of houses she is selling. She creates mini-movies and a tour of each home with her digital camera. She edits the movies with her home computer and uses her son's HD camera to create them.

She told me that by sending movies of expensive houses in the 10-30 million range she has sold three houses last month that had sat on the market for months. She is targeting wealthy members of the yacht club and high end houses.

One way to get real estate leads is to make a website with the houses you are selling and then send out/hand deliver postcards to local homes. Or, you could have the postcards be stamped already and addressed to you with a survey on the back inquiring about whether the resident is thinking of selling in the near future.

One way to get real estate leads would be to partner up with a local business, meaning see if you can set-up a table in their breakroom (or where ever) to provide information about your company.

There are lead generating companies who will create a list in your area. Just look for these companies on the web. Put prime locations on web site search lists. Try Ebay, some have had success there. Try offering incentives for buyers, like trips or tickets to games.

One way to get real estate leads is to check the local obituaries. It's very common for recent widows to sell their home.

One idea for generating real estate leads would be a mail-out type monthly newsletter to specific areas of interest.

One way to get real estate leads would be to host a Real Estate Forum in your local area while advertising on craigslist.org. Book a room in a coffee shop and just have an open forum for people to meet and greet.

One way to get real estate leads would be advertising the area through posting permitted areas or locations. Put the area you are selling and your number where they can contact you.

An idea for getting real estate leads would be to place an ad on the web site that advertises your town and it's motels/hotels, attractions, restaurants, etc.

Advertise and hold workshops that help first time home buyers through the process and provide information on available programs to help them either financially or in other ways.

A Realtor could watch the marraige announcements, mail a congratulations card and business card to the new couple to generate a lead.

To get prospective clients in real estate, look to the Internet to post ads and listings. More and more people are looking towards the internet for many things, among which are real estate listings. Never has technology been able to reach out to so many people. I would recommend posting in sites similar to job postings; basically an online version of classified ads.

The real estate agent could produce a simple leaflet and ask local schools to include it in all prospectuses for prospective parents moving into the area.

One way to get real estate leads is to put an ad into a local newspaper, newsletter, or magazine with a specific focus. For example, a local parenting magazine. You would not only put the ad in, but then donate 10% of your profits made to a local child welfare non-profit if any of the parents who see the ad use your services and mention the ad. Be sure to put that information clearly on the ad!

I've seen this done on a community bulletin board at my local health food store. Any customer who uses the real estate agent advertised there, and mentions the ad, after the sale is over with that customer, the real estate agent will donate 10% of his profits from that sale to a local environmental non-profit group.

I think people in the community would be likely to use a real estate agent knowing that part of their money will be going to a good cause.

One way for a real estate agent or realter to find prospective is by word of mouth. People like to work with agents who have a tried and true track record.

Giving away leaflets & brochures to malls and other commercialized areas is one of the ways you can get Real Estate Leads. Make the leaflets and brochures more presentable and eye-catching, attach your business card and give it away to everyone passing by from commercilaized areas like malls and big company offices. Observe consistency in implementing this and this will surely give you good prospects and leads.

Contact local colleges or universities for new professors arriving in town.

One way to get real estate leads would be to send magnets with a local college football team's schedule on it. Homeowners will keep things that has pertinent information on it and everyone loves a magnet.

One way to get real estate leads is to network. Ask your friends and family, and have them ask their friends and family for possible leads.

One way to get real estate leads would be to plave ads in the local college newspapers. Many of the students at the schools are grad students who have established credit, and may have not thought of purchasing a house yet.

One way to get real estate leads would be to mail letters to the addresses in your neighborhood, stating your qualifications and knowledge of the particular area.

One way to get prospective clients would be to call people whose real estate listing had just expired. Ask, "Do you still want to sell your home? May I apply for the job?"

One way to get leads would be for a Real Estate Agent or Realtor to call on mortgage brokers in their area, who often have lots of clients who come to them to get prequalified for a loan before the clients go out and look at properties. These clients are often looking for a Realtor to help them find a property, and the Mortgage Broker could provide the name and number of the Realtor to contact.

Contact the offices of local sheltered housing and/or retirement communities and make a standing offer to provide advice and help for their new or incoming residents. This advice should not be limited to just selling the residents previous residence, but could also include advice about renting out or maintaining other properties, finding them legal or other professional advisors etc.

have some flyers made and handed out or posted in areas.

Provide a moving van for your clients, also provides a mobile billboard to advertise on.

A real estate agent could establish professional relationships with local businesses human resources people, who could feed the agent the names and contact info of people who are relocating to the area for a new job.

Use magnetic business cards that a client can use on the refrigerator. Break a $20 bill in to $1 amounts and tape one to the back of 20 cards. When you hand them out tell them to keep the dollar. This will help them remember you as being unique.

One way would be through online networking at various sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn.com. Establish yourself as THE "go to" person by having people refer you to other clients and potential clients.

I think that a really good way to get leads would be to post on craigslist.org for the city that you work in. I found my current apartment from there.

Postcards sent to homeowners in an area that you are familar with.

BFI if there is one in your area. Great networking organization

A former real estate agent told me that when he is in line at any store he always talks to the person in front or behind him in line and passes out his business card.

Joining local organizations such as Rotary Club, Elk, etc.

Contact all For Sale By Owner homes listed in your local classified ads of your newspaper

One way to get real estate leads is to offer previous clients an entry into a vacation drawing if they successfully refer new clients.

Check the "Wanted to Buy" section of your local paper's classified ads. Also the Real Estate Section sometimes has ads for people who are looking to buy/rent in a particular area or town.

Provide a web site result for the comparative result .ie.Compare the land area and cost of the land in and around particular residential areas.

Number of factors which influence or would increase the value of that land.like Water facility,Government provided future improvement projects in that particular area.

Advertise the availability of jobs in particular area. Elevate in such a way that in near future the area is about to become a posch area

Go to local open houses and drop your card with people.

Through MLS look up the length of time that people have lived in specific houses, send a marketing package to people that have been in there house for five years or more.

solicit large and small companies who are hiring and ask them to give out your info

if you are around a military installation, so to family services and ask them if you can give a class about home owning

go to churchs and hospitals and ask if you can give a class to new comers about the town and houses

go to social groups and ask to do something for them

One way to get real estate leads would be to develop a relationship with a financial adviser who could steer to you people who are looking to buy or sell property.

If you're a real estate agent there's one thing for sure that you can never have enough of - and that's listings. But what you are less sure about is the best way to get them.

Well, I have good news and bad news for you. The good news is that there isn't any one best way to get real estate listings. There's something to be said for having multiple streams of leads and listings.

So, now for the bad news, which isn't all that bad. Because there's no one best way you'll have to try out different approaches until you find the ones that are right for you.

Arguably, the best way is to find a marketing strategy that you like and stick to it. But, if that doesn't clear up the matter you might consider using real estate marketing articles.

Why Real Estate Articles? If you're building a business it's important to remember that building a business is a process, not an event. Consequently, it takes time to make it successful - as measured by the leads, listings that you get and the sales you make.

Article marketing is particularly effective in generating lead and listing opportunitiess. Some of the more common ways to use them are via the following:

Newsletters - some agents will use an article as a newsletter, a low cost highly leveraged way to share information. Regular communications via newsletters will enable you to develop relationships with your readers and may eventually lead to them transacting their real estate needs with you when they are ready to buy or sell.

Flyers - articles can also make great flyers. Email or send them to your target and you're likely to get listings and make sales.

But again, you're building a business and a presence, so don't expect a lot of sales or listings right out of the box. Instead, you should expect little to any immediate success from your initial mailings. Direct marketing is truly a mid to long range strategy in terms of getting listings and making sales.

Summarily, a final suggestion about "how to get real estate listings" is to purchase a comprehensive guide that shows how.

Go to Google and type in "how to get real estate listings", or "real estate lead ideas" for some possibilities.

Then, work the ideas and suggestions as outlined. I did, and had good results. Maybe you will, too.

Advertise in apartment rental guides. Although some people will only be looking for apartments, some people rent an apartment in an area while house-searching. Others can be persuaded to buy rather than rent.

Advertise at airports or other places people new to an area would be - car rental agencies, rental storage places, hotels.

In military areas, advertise at local tailor shops (places near military bases where military members go to get their uniforms done.) When you move to a new base, you usually ave to get new badges, patches, etc put on your uniforms.

One way for real estate agents to generate leads would be to look in local newspapers. Most papers have a section with public records such as obituaries and divorces. You can generate names that way and then contact the person. Chances are, they will be needing to sell and/or find a new home.

I great way to get Real Estate leads is to "farm" your local area.

There are several ways to attract new leads in real estate. One that is gaining popularity in my area is the semi furnished home. This often includes the window coverings, some furniture to give the buyer an idea of how the home would look when occupied, and energy efficient appliances. Sometimes even a landscaping company is included in the asking price, for instance, landscaping for a year or pool service for a year. This gives the new home owner plenty of time to settle in without some of the major worries of maintaining their new property.

Start a blog that focuses on your local area and has useful information for potential homebuyers.