Black Friday, Online Shopping, and Growing our Buyers List

Today is one of the craziest days of the year....Black Friday. People trample all over each other, wake up at 2 AM, and stand in ridiculous lines to save money on Christmas gifts. I just can't do it. After enjoying a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner with the family, I went through the sales papers to see if there was anything at all worth inconveniencing myself for. Turns out the answer was no. I did go to a couple stores at 8 AM but the 6 AM shoppers had already taken everything - LOL!

So I came back home, turned on the computer and bought a bunch of stuff online. Mission accomplished.

Instead of spending my time on the streets today (and since my hubby is working and daugher is off with her cousins and grandparents at the Cirque de Soleil), I decided to spend some time working on my homework assignment given by our private money mentors. Oh, and on Wednesday I did my first presentation with a close friend of the family (I also consider him a mentor) and he gave me excellent feedback that I will incorporate in the presentation.

Finally, I decided I needed to spend some time working towards growing our buyers list. We need to find more active cash buyers here. I'll be going to the Broward Real Estate Investor meeting this week and I just bought a mailing list of non owner-occupied home owners in my key zip code areas from Listsource.com (people who purchased homes in the last 6 months but are not living in the homes they purchased) and then used Click2mail.com to send off some postcards to these 180 folks. Click2mail.com is very effective and inexpensive. Depending on the results of the mailing, we'll contact these same folks again in early January. We want more buyers to sign up for our mailing list so we can contact them about the deals we're getting.