- Hey guys, what's going on?
This is Seth from Retipster.com.
And if you're anything like me,
you can always use another place to,
not only sell your real estate,
but also to find real estate deals.
And I think a lot of us are pretty well aware
of websites like Facebook, craigslist, Zillow.
Those are kinda like the big three
that everybody uses at some point.
And those are all great.
I mean those legitimately are like the big boys
that get the most traffic and the most attention.
So, you know,
there's a good reason why those are known as the big three.
But something you might not know
is that there's actually dozens and dozens
of other ad posting websites
that are free
that function a lot like Facebook, craigslist and Zillow.
And granted these do not nearly get the same amount
of attention or traffic.
But there's still stuff going on there.
And it might just be worth checking out.
I'm not gonna tell you
that you're gonna like skyrocket the growth of your business
but I mean...It's free.
Ya know, who can't use another free option?
So just in case you've never heard of these,
I just wanna make sure that you're aware of them.
I've used most of these a little bit.
Some of them I haven't used at all,
but something they all have in common,
at least at the time of this recording,
is that you can post ads on there for free.
Which obviously also means,
you can find other people's listings there as well.
So they may be worth your time
just to check out and see if there's anything there.
So we've got craigslist, it's a big one.
Zillow, it's another huge one.
And Facebook Marketplace, it's another biggie.
But going beyond that,
one of the ones I wanna let you know about
is this website called Connected Investors.
Perhaps you've heard of them, perhaps not.
But it's basically like this big online community
of real estate investors.
Where you can connect with other people
and post listing of the properties you're trying to sell.
You might just find a handful
of opportunities here depending
on the market and how active people are
in the areas where you're looking.
Assuming you have an account with these guys.
You just have to log in.
Go over here to the Marketplace.
And then find property if you're looking
to actually find real estate deals.
Or if you wanna list your property,
then obviously go click on, list property.
And you create these listings.
Again they're free to do.
This is generally what they're gonna look like.
It's kinda all the normal, expected stuff
where you'll find a property description,
basic details about the property.
Not like a ton of information,
but all the stuff you'd need just
to access whether or not you're actually interested
in finding out more, including the price.
Looks like this particular one is a M-L-S listing,
but I know there's a lot of listings on here
that are sorta like off-market deals.
Like deals that you're not gonna find
on your local M-L-S System.
Like this one for example, which is for sale by owner.
And this is not a M-L-S listing.
You're not gonna find this anywhere unless you
just happen to stumble across the listings
that this particular owner put together.
So if you've never heard of Connected Investors,
if you don't have an account,
it might be worth just signing up just to poke around
and see if you can find anything of interest here.
Another one worth knowing about is ForSalebyOwner.com.
So this site is kinda like going back and forth
from what I recall.
They used to offer the ability to post listings for free,
and then you couldn't and then you could again.
So, at the time of this recording, you can post listings
on here and it doesn't currently cost anything.
Can't guarantee it's always gonna be like that but
that's the situation as of now.
And all you'd have to do is go over here to, sell your home.
And you can get started
putting together a listing right here
just by clicking, get started.
And then you would just have to create an account
and move on the the next steps.
Just to give you an idea what these listings look like.
We'll go and check out a couple of them here.
Let's take a look at this one right here.
Just as an example.
So you've got plenty of room for photos here.
A nice map feature.
Nice big area for the property description.
Lots of different listing facts, exterior features,
when it was built, neighborhood information,
so really lots of stuff here.
I don't actually know if any of these features are held back
from people who are not paying.
I'm sure they are.
Important thing is, you can get exposure
through this platform which is not insignificant.
And you can do it for free, so.
If you've never checked this out, check it out.
And also, obviously, you can find deals on here, too.
I haven't spent a lot of time looking
on this particular site for deals,
but since it is a listing platform,
there's gonna be lots of different listings here
that you can look through.
And you never know, you might find something
of interest here.
Another one to know about is this website called, letgo.
And letgo is a free listing website
that seems to prioritize ease of use
and like the visual elements of each listing.
In my interactions with the website,
it seems to be intended more for like a mobile audience.
Like people who use it on their phone rather then
on their desktop computers.
But obviously, if you do have a desktop computer,
you can certainly get around and see what you need to see.
I haven't personally done any deals through this website.
I have listed properties here before.
And I have heard from other investors
who have gotten pretty fast results with it.
I don't know if that was just a luck thing
or if it's because letgo
is like a legitimately awesome website.
So I'm not entirely sure,
but depending on which market you're working in,
it's probably worth your while
to at least try posting your properties here
to see if they can get any traction.
And obviously spend some time looking around
to see if you can find some deals.
You just have to go over here to this section, housing.
Then they give you just a few filtering criteria
by which you can sort through these listings.
So you could say from $20,000 to $100,000.
'Cause we're going after cheap deals here.
Then sort by relevance or by date or by price.
Let's start with low to high in this case.
And then posted within the last 24 hours, last seven days,
30 days or all the listings.
So, if you haven't checked out letgo before,
there's definitely a lot of listings here.
So there could be something waiting for ya.
Might be worth spending just a few minutes
just to get more familiar this one.
Another one on the list here is called FIZBER.
I have actually used this website in the past
to create listings.
Not only the free ones, but also to pay
for this thing called the M-L-S BOOST.
Which basically means, a local realtor
in your market lists your property under their name
so that you can get access to the M-L-S.
Which essentially puts your property on websites
like Realtor.com.
Websites that you wouldn't otherwise be able
to get listed on simply as a for sale by owner.
Because you sorta have to have M-L-S access
to get on those.
So, I have used it for that.
In my case, it did not necessarily end up
in selling my property faster
'cause I ended up selling it directly
to an end buyer and they just found my listing
on craigslist anyway.
But if you do want M-L-S access,
and if you think that would be helpful
in your situation, FIZBER is an option for that.
They also have a free listing option
that works pretty well.
And if you're using this website
to try to find deals, you can as it says here,
"Find your next home by searching our database
of off market and for sale by owner properties."
So that right there kinda gets my attention
just because these are properties
that I'm not normally gonna see in the regular course
of just looking on my local M-L-S website.
If I come here, I'm gonna see things
that probably won't show up on those mainstream avenues,
where everybody else is looking, so.
Just to give you an idea for what these listings look like
if you decide to use them, let's go ahead
and just click on this one as an example.
It looks like we've got plenty of spots
for images.
A nice description.
Lots of ads beneath that.
And a few more details at the bottom.
So not like the sleekest looking,
most comprehensive listings I've seen out there.
I think there's definitely better options
that look prettier and all that,
but again, you can get free exposure on this website
and you can get out the basic information.
You never know who's lookin' on here.
It could be somebody of interest who's coming and going.
So in case you've never heard of this one,
just wanted to make sure you knew about it.
Another one on the list here is a website called, oodle.
So this is one of those websites, kinda like craigslist,
doesn't look like anybody has updated the design
in about 20 years.
But, that being said, there is still some stuff going
on here if I check out what similar web says.
It looks like this website, at the time of this recording,
is getting about a million and half monthly visitors
to it, again that's for like every single market,
every single page on the site.
So all-in-all that's not that much probably,
when you boil it down to every individual market,
but still it's a million and a half people every month.
So somebody's coming here and checking this stuff out.
And like all the other websites
that I'm telling you about here,
you can post listings for free.
And you can also browse listings
and find other opportunities that might be in your market
that perhaps aren't showing up elsewhere.
We can go down here to, real estate.
Click on that.
Just get some ideas for the kinds
of properties that are out there.
You can also sort and filter your options a little bit.
Based on bedrooms and bathrooms and prices.
And it also, condition, square footage, seller type,
photos only.
So, it's kinda similar to what craigslist makes available.
It gives you some pretty solid ways
to narrow down specifically which type of properties you are
and are not looking for.
If you wanna post a property for sale,
you can do it up here.
And one claim to fame with this particular website
is that when you post listings here,
they supposedly get syndicated over into REDFIN.com,
which is a major, major real estate listing website
that gets heck of a lot more traffic
then just oodle.com does.
So just keep that in mind.
That if you are posting stuff here,
you could potentially catch that other huge audience.
That's part of why this website, I think, is notable
and just worth knowing about.
'Cause if you do wanna tap into that much larger audience
over on REDFIN, you can do that through this website.
And in a way, I almost find that kinda hard to believe
because this website does not look that slick or fancy.
And it does seem like the kind of place
where spammers can go nuts.
I don't know how the backend works.
I don't know how well it's monitored.
So maybe I'm totally wrong, but just like based
on the visual vibe I'm getting on this website.
Doesn't seem like the kinda place where you can
just plug stuff in here and
it's gonna automatically show up on REDFIN,
but that's what they say.
And if we go over here to REDFIN,
to investigate that claim.
If we go down here to question number seven,
and sure enough just based on the answer I'm seeing
to this question, it does seem to imply
that indeed some of the information
that REDFIN displays, comes to them from Oodle.com.
So there you have it.
I didn't make it up folks.
You can see it right there.
So moving on to the next one.
It's a website here called, AssetColumn.
And this is another site,
just based on what I've seen of it,
it seems kinda underrated.
Like it's pretty well designed.
And the user experience seems pretty great.
And you can post listings for free here.
I actually discovered this a few years ago.
And I remember, even then, I was like, "Wow,
"this is a pretty great website.
"Why have I not heard more about this before?"
So anyway, this is what AssetColumn looks like.
Again, at the time of this recording.
And if you want to find deals, you can go over here
to the navigation bar and click on, buy.
And it'll take you over to a page
that looks like this.
Kinda has a similar vibe
to like Zillow or REDFIN or Trulia,
that kind of thing.
Where you can searching for properties here
and filtering them over here.
It doesn't look like they give you quite
as many filtering options.
But that's fine 'cause remember a lot
of these deals are deal that are not on the M-L-S.
They're posted directly by the owners of the property
or people associated with the investment company.
That kind of thing.
This is just an example
of what these property listings look like.
Pretty sharp, this is one of the better looking layouts
I've seen on the internet at large, so.
I think whoever's in charge
of designing this thing did a pretty solid job.
And then if you wanna go list one of your properties,
you can over here to, sell, in the navigation bar
and click on, post your property.
And it's a pretty straight forward easy way
to get through it.
Just go ahead and log in or sign up right here.
It's generally not a hard process to figure out.
So go ahead and check out AssetColumn.
I don't know if this website syndicates
with any other ones out there,
but just in terms of the website itself,
I think it's definitely one worth knowing about.
Now moving on to the next one.
So we're starting to fall
into the range
of almost not even worth mentioning (laughs) sites.
Simply because as you can see
from this particular one, FindMyRoof.com.
Kinda has a similar look and feel to oodle,
where whoever's in charge of website design
is just asleep at the wheel.
Like this thing does (laughs) not look that sharp.
But again, it's free to post stuff here if you want.
You can place an ad right there.
And you can go ahead and start lookin'
for deals all over the place.
You can start by looking in the state
and just see what you can find that way.
Just to give you an idea what these listings look like.
So all the basic place holder information is there.
You can put a handful of pictures.
You can enlarge the pictures by clicking on 'em.
And you can see all the basic details
and description.
It's just not that beautiful of a website
to look at.
But practically speaking, if you're just looking
for another medium by which you can find deals out there
and post your properties for sale.
Check out FindMyRoof, it's right here, it's free,
and it's pretty easy to use.
So there's actually
a lot more websites I could tell ya about
but the ones we've covered right here, so far.
Are probably the most notable ones where I think
you're gonna get the biggest bang for your buck.
If you decide to use them at all.
If you're looking for some other less notable
but still you can post listings for free
and you can find deals there.
Go ahead and check the blog post I put together
that I do try to keep updated as often as possible.
Usually about once a year, I'll go back
and remove websites that don't exist anymore
and add new ones that I've learned about.
You can check it out at REtipster.com.
I'll have a link to that blog post beneath this video
and you can go see what it has to offer.
As you can see, there's tons of websites out there
with really weird names.
Some of them seem super obscure.
But I've checked them all out
and they are real, so you never know.
But feel free to check that out if you wanna look
into this further.
Hope you found these ideas helpful.
If you've never heard of any of these,
hopefully you'll learn something new here.
And hopefully you've got a few new websites you can add
to your bookmarks list, so.
Thanks again for watchin'.
Talk to you next time.