Flip This Wholesaler

Do you guys remember like 3 years ago when I used to rant and rave about how much I loved Craigslist?

Man, times sure have changed.

I can’t stand Craigslist these days (for real estate, anyway), mostly because of the annoying spammers who bombard me with their annoying emails.  I get so irritated.  They should change the name to Spamslist.

My buddy Murphy, however, is always finding buyers on CL (he just sold an overpriced piece of crap on there last week and made 6k), so every few months I’ll decide that I’m going to start posting deals on CL again until I actually sell something.  This usually lasts about a week or so until I get fed up and quit.  That’s pretty much where I’m at right now, and a couple days ago I decided to just start posting obnoxious ads to see what would happen.  Just for fun.

Normally when I put ads up on CL the only responses I get are emails from time wasting idiots that say “Gee, sounds like a great house, are you flexible on price?”  or some variation of that.  Then when you respond, they hijack your email address and start sending you ads for Viagra and the like. Which is awesome, because I’m totally in the market for some cheap Viagra.

So anyway, I posted the following ad on Monday, and my phone seriously rang off the hook…

Hehe. I was so amused with myself.

I think I’ve gotten 11 or so phone calls on this deal since I put the ad up, and I’ve been marketing that same house on there at the same price for over a week with zero response.

It didn’t keep the spammers away, however.

I got this email a few hours ago, which I found particularly amusing:

Apparently Caleb didn’t read the post title.

Or maybe he considers cockroach infested houses “nice places.”  Who knows.

At any rate, I thought I’d share this little marketing tip with all of you. Give it a shot and let me know how it works out.

Later cucarachas!