Monday, May 25, 2009

A New Twist on Using Bandit Signs for Real Estate

There are many places where you can put out bandit signs. Not only can you put them out on stands near the road, on the highway or in front of your property but I have businesses that allow me to put them in their window and I either pay them rent, a property commission or I pay per lead.

Just keep some signs in your car and stop by 1-2 businesses each day and ask the owner if you can put your sign in the window. As an example, I did this with a local auto repair shop and he has sent me several leads and one of them closed. I purchased the property for $80k and sold it for $100k. The buyer put in $7k and sold it retail for $139k. Now that's a win, win transaction.

In NC where I do some business, you cannot pay a person a referral fee for an actual transaction but you can pay for a lead. Just be careful and know your state laws. If you're in a state where they don't allow paying referral fees you have to pay per lead. Don't try to do something that's going to get you in trouble. It will shut you down and give you a bad reputation. Check with your local real estate investors association or contact the state real estate commission to learn your states laws.

In my area, where there are lots of new home communities, there are sign placement companies who will put out open house and new home communities signs for builders on Friday and come and pick them up every Monday morning. If you have these in your area you can hire them to put your 'I Buy Houses' sign right along with the new home signs. Think about it. Most people who want to buy a new home already have another one they need to sell first so you are probably the first one they'll call since you caught them at the exact time they're looking to buy a new home. When you see all of the new home signs out together then call one of them and just ask who puts them out.

Here's another idea. Put your signs out near retirement homes and communities. There are many people who drive by them going to the community or retirement homes and they'll see your sign as many have property they need to sell.

Hire Others for the Grunt Work

When putting out signs in different areas, I don't put them out myself. You can get a college student, teenager, etc. You could even contact a local church and ask them who may need work or see if you could get the youth group to put them out for a donation. Be sure to check out liability issues as you don't want to do anything where someone gets hurt, and if they did you don't want to be liable. I pay $2.00 per sign and they have to bring me back pictures of everywhere they have placed the signs which is included in that two dollars. This is a quality control measure.

I don't really need the picture, I just want to make sure they're not going out and throwing them in the dumpster and coming back to collect their $2.00 per sign. If you're rehabbing properties, and you have a down day; get your rehab contractor to put up some signs. Most don't mind it, especially if you have a rehab contractor that has helpers. They'll go out and pay them $1.00 and you pay them $2.00 so they've made a profit for the day. great idea, huh?

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Monday, November 24, 2008

How The Economic Down Turn Is Affecting New Car Sales

The credit crunch is biting all around and everyone from supermarkets to airlines to car dealers are feeling the pulling in of belts and the loss of sales.
New cars are no exception.Many new cars are used as fleet cars or company cars, from the Lexus to the BMW, and those same companies are decreasing on their unnecessary spending budget and making the cars they have last another year or so in order to see how finances pan out.This hits the car dealers pretty hard.

The sale of new cars such as Lexus and Mercedes and even your average Ford are down by just over twenty per cent on last years figures.Given that this is the time of year when new car sales are made up with the bulk of their annual sales thanks to the new registration plate, this is disappointing news and a little worrying.These are the worst sales figures in the motor industry in seventeen years.

Outlets orders to manufacturers have remained the same leading to a back log of vehicles stored at ports with no homes to go to as the expected space in the showrooms has not materialised.Of the drivers who can afford new cars, many are turning to the smaller, more economical version with lower tax expenses and more fuel efficiency.Of course, Lexus and BMW do eco-friendly versions but they still come with luxury car status and as such, they are accompanied by a luxury car price tag.

The blame for the lack of new car sales is being attributed to the current financial crisis and a lack of confidence in job security.This is making people reluctant to pay out for new cars unless they are absolutely necessary, but the good news is for those who can afford a new car.The chances of them getting a good deal right now when dealers are desperate for a sale are quite high.

More depressing news from the motoring world came in the form of car parts suppliers, LSUK, axing 600 workers after the business went into administration following a failed takeover.The company have 53 branches nationally and all workers have been issued with redundancy notices until a buy-out can be secured.

The motoring industry is looking to the government to ease the situation for new car dealers by capping the increases in vehicle excise duty along with other measures.The sale of new cars has been falling all year at a rate of 7.5 per cent over the last year but the chain of events in the worlds finances has seen that dip to the twenty per cent drop that we now see.

Much of these sales drops that are currently being witnessed are with the larger car manufacturers, with the exception of Audi and Jaguar who enjoyed a slight increase.However, the Vauxhall Corsa turned out to be the best selling car followed closely by Fiesta, Astra, Focus and Golfs.So, it would seem that people really are opting for the smaller car.

Despite Jaguar and Ford not seeing so much of this downturn, they are still taking precautionary measures to cut back with the Ford Transit plant in Southampton being put on a four day week until further notice and Jaguar cutting back on the volumes they produce.This just goes to show that the economic problems are effecting industries other than banking and that we all need to keep a tighter grip on our money.
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Saturday, October 11, 2008

Fleet Management Solutions And Your Business

Any business manager wants to run an operation that is efficient and profitable. This is especially true for those involved in fleet management; running a vehicle fleet can be extremely costly and at times wasteful, this is due to the fact that the manager rarely possesses direct control over operatives meaning that inefficiency runs rife. This however has been changing in recent years thanks to the introduction of GPS fleet management tools in many companies.

These systems allow the manager to track all of their assets while they are out on the road, giving them control over all operatives whilst having the information on any specific vehicle at their fingertips.

GPS fleet management solutions are the most effective and worthwhile way to track a fleet of company vehicles throughout the working day as well as out of hours. As a result the industry as a whole has been growing steadily over the last few years, as businesses realise the benefits of these systems. Companies of all sizes, savours locally run operations to multi federal government enterprises can benefit indulge in the implementation of a fleet administration algorithm. Electing which one nevertheless plus such a excess of choices on the advertise can be challenging, and a lot of alternatives and complicated manner of speaking it is not surprising that so a few are departed discombobulated. Confidently the after script will class this selection a tender easer and candid.

The initially affection to be planned concerns the momentum and regularity that the record will be want. Counting upon this vote will nasty that either a true period or diplomatic fleet management algorithm is in a job. Both of these techniques give the whole story concentration on driver behaviour and will aid augment efficiency by granting car hastens, locales, commands and selection. They do differ nonetheless in the methods of delivery.

Bona fide era fleet government resolutions contribute the manager up to the infinitesimal admonition on cars and operatives. This form of car tracking has hastily turn out to be the most poplar for this alibi; above all as every time it is combined as well as a cellular mobile phone network it allows the chief to skill personal dominate over all employees no matter where they are.

An more bonus is that a couple means entail a note down lesson tell average that updates managers of any instances of unauthorised vehicle use or occasions such as speeding or unwarranted detours. This kind of fleet management can maximize efficiency by inhibiting the epoch tired idling and by enacting the more gasoline effective routes. A handful enterprises have yet reported that following implementing this kind of system, petrol usage can decline by as a great deal of a twenty proportion.

Diplomatic vehicle tracking has a keystone diversity to bona fide epoch. It archive all of the equivalent hint but as a replacement of relaying this briefing straight away, the log is not transmitted to the focal machine except the end of the performing day when the automobiles bring forth to the headquarters. This download can be performed wirelessly as quickly as the motorcar enters the paddock even though guide download method do exist. These classes of procedure are regularly cheaper than authentic moment variants although a sacrifice is made in the appropriately of the briefing.

Hopefully this script has arranged those engaged in fleet admin an guidelines of the two predominant types of vehicle tracking set of rules out there. Both will experience guaranteed applications depending upon the situations they are being used in. For those buying a set of rules keep in mind that a alert and conscientious manifestation will relinquishing the best answers.
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