We have been mailing to obits for about 4 weeks now with no calls yet. We finally got our first call on Thursday. Kirk called us and said that his father passed away a few weeks ago and he and his two brothers inherited the house and had NO idea what to do with it. We set up an appointment and met him on Friday.

We met with Kirk and went through the house. ARV is $90,000. The house needs a TON of work. All new windows, flooring, roof, kitchen, 2 baths, furnace, AC, water heater, etc. Structurally sound and a great layout, but needs a lot of work. I have a budget put together and am going to make an offer Monday morning. Here's the part the got me.

As we inspected the house we listened to Kirk talk about his dad and all of his accomplishments. He was a WW2 bomber pilot, an expert carpenter, and an all around great guy. We went trough his old music room with all of his stereo equipment and old 8 tracks and vinyl records... it was great hearing Kirk talk about how proud he was of his father. I hope someday my son talks about me like that.

Kirk said that after the funeral and a few days of mourning he headed over to the house and was looking for some direction on what to do. Then he said that he checked the mailbox and found our we buy houses postcard and that he felt a huge weight released off of his shoulders. He said that he was thankful to find somebody to help him get this house off of his hands becuase neither he or his brothers had time to deal with it. They just wanted a little cash out of it and wanted to move on....

That blew me away. I finally get it. If you know me well you know that I am a slow learner. Steve can tell me 100 things but until I experience it I don't completely get it. I just experienced how we can help people in a way that I wasn't quite open to. Well, I am now.

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Good stuff!

Thanks Rob.... that's really what it's all about, helping people AND making money.

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Sounds like a win/win

Go get em J!!!

Whats the landscape look like, maybe I can drive down there and do a job for beer!!!!

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That's awsome Jared. Alot of people will be like this I think. And I don't think your slow learner!

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Maybe stubborn was the word I was looking for

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that's ok, even gomer got ahead in his life
maybe we can all learn fron this story

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Don't you have a lawn to mow or something?

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yeh, still waiting on that too unfortunately

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You know I tried to get this into the minds of some family who felt that all I was trying to do is take advantage of people and exploit their problems.

To take a house off someone's hands is not in any way taking advantage of someone. Its funny how some people act like parting with your house is so emotional when the average home owner moves every 5 to 7 years. Doesn't seem to emotional to me.

Anyway, I am glad that you have ran into these type of people as I run into them all the time. I have however ran into those who are in distress but still refuse to face the music. Most end up contacting me again later but its normally nothing I can do for them at that time. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that foreclosure, divorce, death or etc isn't an emotional situation but to think someone wants to take advantage of you by offering to buy your house has never registered in my brain and I have no idea where that even comes from.

Thank God for Ebay and Craigslist cause if they didn't exist I would probably be stuck with a lot of junk I wish someone would buy from me. Just because its your home doesn't mean it isn't a piece of junk, it just means its your piece of junk. I am now done with my venting. Happy Investing.

Mike.

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