By the way, I live about 20 miles outside of town in an area that was until just recently as rural as it gets. I live on 200 acres well off the beaten path.
Just recently I have received a number of offers to sell. Always at a low price; so low that the letters went straight to the trash.
But I wonder if any of this could be related.
Another interesting factor: The “company” offering to buy always has a name that sounds like something the kids came up with at a supper table game, giving me the feeling that the real group behind the offer was behind the curtain.
In my rural county the signs are “Bubba buys houses, call -— — ——, as if they think “Bubba” will make people trust them because the people behind the signs think everyone in the rural areas are named “Bubba”.
Just recently I have received a number of offers to sell. Always at a low price; so low that the letters went straight to the trash.
Real estate wholesaler, basically a cash buyer at a discount, will pretty much buy right now, no inspections, nothing crazy other then a clean deed. He might already have a buyer lined up that will buy the property for 30 or 50% more then he paid, might be investors, developers, flippers, etc looking for easy, ready to go deals. They don’t want to deal with contingencies, wishy washy buyers, buyers with stupid demands, buyers who want 20x what it is worth, so they might just buy from small time wholesalers who bring them their best ready to buy deals.
“Just recently I have received a number of offers to sell. Always at a low price; so low that the letters went straight to the trash.”
People have figured out that if you send out thousands of those mailers, you’ll get calls from a few senile people who still run their own affairs and you can steal a few houses.
I get those mailers too.
Wait until you get multiple offers for your places via text, email, cell phone and USPS.
If everybody is doing it, it’s obviously too late.
All to condition you to jump on a better offer later, better being more than any of the low ball offers but below fair market value.
Enough people fall for it to buy a lot of stamps!