Receive Property Lists

Before: Buying Process Overview: First Meeting: Receive Property Lists

Receive Property Lists is all about how you’ll get the properties that are for sale and that come up for sale from your real estate agent. It is the fifth step in the First Meeting with your real estate agent process.

Typically, we recommend that you ask your real estate agent to set up automatic property search emails at the first meeting. You’d provide your real estate agent information about the properties you need and they’d set it up so you receive property notifications as those properties come up for sale in the MLS. This is typically done in Week 1 or Week 2 of the Ultimate Nomad Checklist™.

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The Receive Property Lists process is shown below.

Class Watch "Finding Properties for Nomads" Recording of Live Class

Watch the recording of the live presentation of "Finding Properties for Nomads" available on:

https://RealEstateFinancialPlanner.com/finding-properties-for-nomads/

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Discuss how MySite works

Talk to your Real Estate Broker how receiving property list emails and MySite works.

Mark this task as complete once you've learned about receiving properties via email and using MySite.

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Determine your acceptable property characteristics

Define what your acceptable property characteristics are. These are characteristics it is easy to search for in the MLS.

Examples include:

  • Cities you'd be willing to invest in
  • Minimum (and maybe maximum) number of bedrooms
  • Garage or no garage
  • Mobile homes? Condos? Townhomes? SFH? Multi-Family (2-4 units)? Commercial multi-family (5+ units)?
  • Price? Minimum? Maximum?

    • Property age? New construction?

Discuss with your Real Estate Broker if you have questions.

Mark this task complete once you know your acceptable property characteristics.

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Send investment criteria to your Real Estate Broker

Send the investment criteria you determined in a previous task to your Real Estate Broker so they can set up a search in the MLS to send you properties.

Mark this task complete once you have sent your criteria to your Real Estate Broker.

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Discuss ColoProperty.com

Discuss with James why you should use ColoProperty.com to check any properties you find on other websites before contacting James about them.

Websites like Zillow, Realtor, Trulia, Redfin, etc can have inaccurate or delayed data.

ColoProperty.com is the direct interface to our local MLS and so it is the most up-to-date website for checking property status, pricing, etc.

If you're going to use other websites, please check ColoProperty.com before emailing James about it to make sure the info from those other websites is correct.

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REAL ESTATE BROKER: Setup automatic property search emails

Have your Real Estate Broker set you up to receive automatic property search emails with properties that match your criteria.

Usually this means telling your Real Estate Broker:

  • Cities you'd consider (or in some cases parts of specific cities)
  • Attached, detached or both
  • Minimum beds and bathrooms
  • Price max (and maybe a price minimum)
  • Garage requirements
  • Any other requirements that Real Estate Broker can set up a search for

Mark this complete once your Real Estate Broker has started to send you automatic property search emails.

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Once you’ve figured out which properties and how you’ll receive them from your real estate agent, you can move on to discussing Analyzing Deals with your real estate agent.

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Improvements

The following are improvements I plan to make to this page based on some of my Standard Process Improvement Questions.

  • Add resources about what goes into picking which properties should be included in the property search.

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  5. Sponsor Read "Before for Real Estate Agents"
  6. Sponsor Read "During for Real Estate Agents"
  7. Sponsor Read "After for Real Estate Agents"
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  9. Sponsor Read "Standard Process Improvement Questions"

IMPORTANT NOTE: This checklist is based on what I personally use with clients in Northern Colorado. Please rely on your local real estate agent for how it works in your local real estate market. This process will definitely vary in different States.

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