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Guest Post: Helpful Information From Ron Mead

March 24, 2011 by Scott Costello 1 Comment
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As most of you who have been reading my blog know, I started off in probate investing by following Ron Meads “31 Days to Profit in Probate Investing” course.  It’s one of the simplest and best probate courses out there and really does throw all the minutia to the curb and focuses on just what you need [...]

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No More Probate List…Wait, Say What?

February 4, 2011 by Scott Costello 4 Comments

Real estate investing is full of road blocks for sure and I just ran into one that sort of blindsided me.   Yesterday afternoon I got an email from my probate list supplier informing me that he will no longer be able to give me the probate list I’ve been getting.  Ah CRAP!!  (actually what I [...]

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Probate Monday: Getting My Gangster On

November 22, 2010 by Scott Costello 9 Comments

As Justin McClelland likes to call it, I got my gangster on this past weekend and put out some of my bandit signs.  Instead of going out late at night, we ended up waking up before the ass crack of dawn and got out there with about 1 hour and 30 minutes left of darkness. [...]

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Probate Monday: Using A Greeting Card Envelope

November 16, 2010 by Scott Costello 5 Comments
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Today I put my November probate mailers into the mailbox for delivery.  This mailing is the first of my test run using greeting card envelopes.   My goal is to try and get more people to open them up and improve on my 4% response rate so far.   With the holidays coming I am [...]

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Who’s Afraid To Make An Offer?

October 22, 2010 by Scott Costello 5 Comments

I’ve recently gotten off track with my Probate Monday posts, but the recent lead I’ve been working is a probate lead so I give you Probate Monday On Friday… After figuring out the repair costs for the Tall Timber house I had one last thing to do and that was actually call Jim (the owner) [...]

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