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David & Preston

40 properties in under 4 months on full-time W2s

Stacked county tax delinquent and high equity absentee lists in DataSift, then kept a $6 an hour VA dialing while they worked construction.
David & Preston
Case study

Two construction managers stacked a $50 county tax delinquent list with Listsource absentee data and wholesaled about 40 properties before ever leaving their W2s.

$253K
cash and equity from one deal
40
properties in their first 4 months
Under $1K
startup cost, October 2019
Revenue
$253K
Team size
2-4
Market
Tulsa, OK
Niche
Tax delinquent stacked with high equity absentee, plus county foreclosure, probate, eviction, and water shutoff lists
Monthly overhead
About $2,500
Time to first deal
About 1 month
The big win
40 properties in under four months, both partners still working full-time construction jobs
An Excel spreadsheet printed out, on our cell phones in the parking lot making cold calls.
David runs data and marketing, Preston runs VAs and acquisitions, one Philippines VA on the dials

About

David and Preston run Forefront Investments in Tulsa, Oklahoma while holding full-time construction management jobs. They started wholesaling in October 2019 and covered about 40 properties in four months, including a 30-house package from one cold call.

Operating market

Tulsa, OK

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The Challenge

In August 2019 David and Preston were construction managers sharing an office at a Tulsa general contractor. Preston drove 45 minutes each way, and 12-hour days were normal. They wanted to flip a house, so they called realtors, set MLS searches, and shopped Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace. Nothing penciled. They tried door knocking and driving for dollars next and were not seeing much for the effort.

A coworker connected them to a local investor named Armani, and one coaching call reset the whole approach. Until then their system was a printed spreadsheet and two cell phones in a parking lot. Armani pointed them to list stacking, Podio, and Tyler Austin's YouTube channel, all in the same day. Podio was, in their words, "a rough start." They kept the skepticism but funded the build anyway, redirecting the money they usually spent going out on weekends. "Let's do it the right way, let's build a solid foundation."

What They Built

Stacking a $50 county list before the first dial

Their first data buy was about $650: a tax delinquent list from the county for roughly $50 and high equity absentee records from Listsource. Around 15,000 records went into DataSift, and the first campaign was a two-stack of those lists. The vacancy filter surfaced their first deal, a $40,000 ask they contracted at $20,000 for a quick $5,000 assignment. Total cost to launch the business came in under $1,000. The advice they give anyone starting now:

Get a couple lists and stack them to find that, you know, maximize your motivation and just go for it.

Handing off the dials inside two weeks

David and Preston logged 10 to 15 hours of cold calling each, then hired a local caller at $10 an hour. He pulled five to six leads a day from 90 second conversations and locked up their first contracts. Six weeks later they let him go; "his willingness to learn was zero." A Philippines VA at $6 an hour replaced him, about $1,000 a month, calling weekends too. They hired and fired six people in four months and kept dialing through all of it.

Selling 29 houses through property management companies

They had never marketed a portfolio. They posted the 29-house package in the Tulsa real estate investors Facebook group, then David started cold calling property management companies for quotes.

I'm a wholesaler, I'm trying to sell twenty nine properties here, and I have some buyers that are interested.

The best quote came back at 7 percent on an $18,500 monthly rent roll. Two managers sent the package to investor clients, which produced a backup offer at $825,000. They took the $800,000 buyer instead, the one who accepted the seller's no walkthrough clause.

Texting county niche lists for about $200

From mid December they chased foreclosure, probate, eviction, and water shutoff lists at the county, hard lists to get. In January they "started hitting niche lists with Textmagic" on top of the cold calling. About $200 in texts locked up three contracts inside three weeks.

Before and After

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Before DataSift

  • No Deep Understanding Of His Own Data
  • Gave Up Bulk Dialing And Texting Years Ago
  • Relying On Inbound Leads And Bought Deals
  • A Contract Per 12-13 Qualified Leads
  • 10,000-record Niche Lists, Filtered Monthly In Sift
  • Focused Down To Indiana And Ohio
  • Owns The Operation Now, 50-50 Split
  • $300K In Spreads In His First 90 Days
  • Almost $600K In Contracts Ghosted Or Backed Out
  • Five States At Once, Spread Too Thin
  • All The Profit Going To Someone Else
  • Running An Agency For 14-16 US Investors
  • Homegrown Closer Converts Over 20% Of Offers
  • Text Blasts First, Smaller Call Lists After
  • Whole Philadelphia Metro Recycled Through Rehash Campaigns
  • Sequences And Lists Fully Dialed In
  • Over 50 Deals A Year Across Two Companies
  • New Construction Plans Stalled By Rates And Costs
  • Deep Prospecting Alone, Before Any System
  • Two Cheap College Duplexes, Bought With A Partner
  • Everything Done By 6pm
  • $1,500-1,800 A Month Total Marketing Spend
  • 150 Dials A Day, First To Market
  • 200 Probates A Month From Weekly Courthouse Runs
  • $800K A Year Running Solo
  • No Online County Data In His Market
  • Long Hours Getting The Business Started
  • Years Of Flips And Contractor Headaches
  • Tuesday At 2 Hunts Generate His Own Deals
  • 4 Deals And $330K Equity In 30 Days
  • Sales Leader Owns Leads, Casey Tunes Systems
  • 325,000 County Records, Scrubbed Nightly By VAs
  • Full Operation: Acquisitions Agents, Sales Leader, VA Data Team
  • Team Waiting On Leads To Come In
  • Doing Well, But Knew He Could Do More
  • Watching Every Lead Himself, Day To Day
  • Callers Grinding Through Manual Data
  • Two-man Team: Casey Plus One Acquisitions Guy
  • Cutting edge 1-1 sales and marketing integration
  • Improved accuracy when making offers and estimating rehab costs
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After DataSift

  • Tens of Thousands Spent on Masterminds That Never Fit
  • Got Crushed Wholesaling Cleveland Virtually From New York
  • Career-biggest payoff under agreement after a year of deep prospecting
  • A 1,300-lead vacant property gold mine in two counties
  • One shared database with his agent wife for three years
  • Guru models demanded VAs and a big company he never wanted
  • His investing and her listing business never connected
  • Ten years flipping houses with no shared system
  • One Call and One Text Found His Last Buyer
  • A Deal About Every Three Weeks, Pushing for Two
  • Eight Deals Working in the Middle of the Slowdown
  • A $7,000 Mail Campaign Went Out at 56 Percent of Value
  • Three to Five Active Listings in Every Subdivision He Underwrites
  • Colorado Prices Down 9 to 11 Percent by May
  • Callers Hunt Correct Numbers, Closers Take Over
  • Returned Mail Tagged And Worked As Its Own Bucket
  • 6 Deals In One Month From Year-Old Data
  • Eight Months In Before Working The Data Right
  • Bulk Dials On Call Tools Produced Nothing
  • 100K Records Added, Team Spinning Its Wheels
  • Mail, three call attempts, then the rehash pool
  • 150 records a month, skip traced twice before dialing
  • Full authority probates only, five Southern California counties
  • 15 to 20 grand across seven months of last year
  • Calling agents and MLS, never direct to seller
  • No CRM, just a phone, a computer, and email
  • $56K Largest Single Assignment
  • A VA Pulls County Probate Data Daily
  • $5,300 Total Expenses, About $441 A Month
  • $210K In Fees From 7 Deals In A Year
  • Every Conversation Started Cold
  • No Pipeline, No Aged Database, No Team
  • Random Calling On Whatever Records He Found
  • Started September 2023 With No Probate Experience
  • $95K Spread Closed In 21 Days
  • All Four Questions Answered On Every Lead
  • 120 Qualified Sellers In The Pipeline
  • $1M+ Company With SMS As The Core Channel
  • Tracking It All In Podio, Then Another CRM
  • Doing What Everybody Else Was Doing
  • Downloading Every Record Providers Would Give Him
  • Churn And Burn Message Blasts
  • One Contract For Every 10 Leads
  • 100% Of Deals Sourced Inside The System
  • $1M+ In Assignment Fees In 2023
  • Almost All Deal Flow From Driving For Dollars
  • Bouncing Between Tools Looking For One That Stuck
  • Leads Tracked In Excel Sheets, Antiquated And Scattered
  • First Flip Finished And Live On Market
  • Partner Funding Instead Of 18-22% Hard Money
  • Probate Cleared In A Week And A Half
  • About One Deal Per 15 To 20 Doors
  • Door Knocks The Foreclosure List Top To Bottom
  • Severely In Debt, Couldn't Keep Up
  • A Couple Of Years To Get In Gear
  • Worked Hard For Two Weeks, Then Stopped
  • 12 Years In Oil And Gas, Then Nothing Left
  • $10K Deal From A Q3 Not Interested Lead
  • Follow Up Brought The Seller Down $40,000
  • Two First To Market Contracts In One Week
  • Dedicated Caller Works The First To Market Flow
  • Eviction Records Pulled Straight From Two Counties
  • Outbound Marketing Completely Phased Out
  • Credit Card Debt From Bad Marketing Advice
  • Two Years Of Shiny Object Crash And Burn
  • Absurd Data Subscription Costs Draining The Business
  • $61,644 Net From A Lien List Rehash
  • Tracks Wrong Numbers, Cuts Skip Trace Spend
  • Emails The Township For Exact Lien Payoffs
  • Rehash Filters: Mobile Numbers, No Response, Liens
  • Next Day Follow Up Text Gets The Reply
  • Lien Lead Silent Since February 2024
  • No Follow Up Text After A Silent First Message
  • Unknowingly Recycling The Same Data
  • Pulling 10,000 Record Lists The Old Way
  • 15 Heirs Signed, $37,500 In One Month
  • Skip Trace, Upload To Sift, Call Fast
  • Small Problem Lists Over Huge Data Sets
  • Targets Deeds Of Trust 12 Years Or Older
  • Checks County Foreclosure Postings Every Morning
  • Bulk Absentee And Owner Marketing Dried Up
  • 150 Mile Days Driving Project To Project
  • Six Renovations Running At One Time
  • Full Time Rehabbing Since 2015
  • Sellers Now Calling In From Her Mail
  • One Hot Lead Plus Tons Of Correct Numbers
  • Mails Only The 54 Absentee Petitioners First
  • Google Form Auto Formats Data For Upload
  • Pulls Probate Filings Daily Across Three Counties
  • Left A Company, Unsure She Could Pull It Off
  • Tedious Copy And Paste List Formatting
  • Struggled To Pull Data From Her County
  • Years In California Trying To Figure It Out
  • 135,000 Records Organized Into Buckets
  • A Lead Every 10-15 Calls
  • Pre-probate Inherited Niche, 60% Sell Within Two Years
  • New Process Closed Its First Deal In 30 Days
  • Thursday Deep Research, Offer Accepted By Monday
  • PropStream Lists And Bought Probate Data
  • Return Mail Dead-ended, Records Sat Dormant For Years

What changed

December 4, 2019, two months in. Their cold caller reached a Tulsa landlord on the tax delinquent and high equity two-stack, and the note was short: he would sell, he had more properties, he was ready to retire. David called back the same day. "He didn't know how many properties he had when I called him." A search of the seller's name on the county site pulled 31 records. They met in person and worked through the list one address at a time, the seller quoting every rent from memory. Two months of dialing had put a 30-house portfolio in front of two W2 construction managers.

The Results

The December 4 lead became one master contract: 30 properties at $725,000. They sold 29 as a single package for $800,000 and kept the last house. The assignment came to about $73,000 after costs, and Tyler rounds the fee to $75,000 on the call. The house they kept is 1,800 square feet, worth $170,000 to $180,000, renting at $900 with about $1,300 possible after turnover. Add it up and one cold call produced roughly $253,000 in cash and equity.

Four months in, the totals: about 12 contracts covering roughly 40 properties on about $10,000 of total spend, including a house bought for $2,500. They generated 347 leads, about 35 leads per deal, against the 60 Tyler calls typical. A $20,000 assignment from an absentee cold call was set to close the Tuesday after filming. Preston's read: "Literally the last four months have been the most extreme roller coaster I think David and I have ever been on."

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Is there a free trial?

Yes DataSift offers a 7 day free trial. In those 7 days you’ll receive all necessary materials to learn exactly how to leverage Sift in your company.

What does DataSift do?

DataSift helps real estate companies locate the best markets, execute targeted marketing, and identify the right sellers, buyers and buy boxes. Sift gives your team one place to manage leads, follow-ups, tasks, appointments, and KPIs to keep your operation tight.

How much does DataSift cost?

Our lowest plan starts at $149 a month and our highest plan is $1250 a month.

Will I have access to the support team?

Yes, all users have access to our support team through our support chat. We offer live calls, community calls, help center tutorials and a large investor community for widespread support.

Will new data automatically add to my Sift account?

Yes. Expert plan, AI plan and users with the SiftMap Pro add-on can opt to have records auto-added to their account based on their preferred criteria.

How do I migrate over my data from another CRM?

Contact our support team through our support chat and they will give you all necessary materials and information to make sure you get all of your data uploaded exactly how you want it.

How does the unlimited skiptracing work?

DataSift provides pay per skip pricing as well as a fixed $97 a month unlimited skiptracing add on. Unlimited skiptracing comes with the Expert and AI Plans automatically

What lists can I pull inside DataSift?

Free Lists

  • Free and Clear
  • High Equtiy
  • Low Equity
  • Negative Equity
  • Owner Occupied
  • Absentee
  • Pre-Foreclosure
  • Foreclosure

SiftMap Pro Lists

  • Pre-Foreclosures - Notice of Default
  • Pre-Foreclosures - Lis Pendens
  • Pre-Foreclosures - Notice of Foreclosure
  • Pre-Foreclosures - Final Judgement
  • Pre-Foreclosures - Court Order
  • State Tax Lien
  • Federal Lien
  • Liens (Mechanic's, Utility)
  • Judgment Liens
  • HOA Liens
  • Bad Credit
  • Estate Sales
  • Probate Properties
  • Criminal Felony
  • Senior Homeowners
  • Divorce Properties
  • Eviction
  • Vacant Properties
  • Pre-Probate
  • Low Income
  • Bankruptcy Properties
  • Inheritance Properties
  • Tax Delinquent Properties
  • Short Term Loan

What is DataSifts default account?

When you create a new DataSift account (or enable the default build if you're an existing user), you'll have:

How does DataSift work for Commercial Real Estate & Land?

Yes! You can manage any prospect with an address in DataSift. No street address for vacant land? No worries. Upload using the APN/Parcel ID as street address. Then it’s a matter of skiptracing and running a marketing campaign in Sift.