Marketing speed other wholesalers can't match
Built a $100K+ business using free courthouse data while maintaining a W-2 job.
About
Kasim, a real estate investor, began his journey by purchasing a wholesale course while working a full-time job.
Operating market
Kasim works mainly in real estate, with a focus on Delaware and neighboring states: Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
Favorite features
The Challenge
Kasim Adeleke came into real estate the usual way: college, a full time job, then a wholesaling course. A mentor from his Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu gym, known there as the real estate guy, widened the lens past wholesaling into creative finance and flips. He started with bandit signs and direct mail. Then he leaned on his drop shipping background and ran the business on Facebook ads for years.
During COVID, Facebook shut down his ad account and the inbound engine died overnight. He wanted marketing he could control, hunting instead of waiting. His old school mentor's advice was just get a list, mail it, repeat. Kasim kept asking the question that advice could not answer: how do you know when a record already said not interested, or told you to stop mailing? A fellow DataSift user in Delaware showed him how to pull county records and filter data, and that became the model. He still works the W-2 today, by choice.
What They Built
Free courthouse records as the deal engine
Kasim markets to foreclosures and probates he pulls straight from the county courthouse, in person or through the county sites. The records cost nothing. Delaware is home base, with Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey counties layered on. Facebook and PPC still run, but county data drives the business.
Now that's really the engine of my business at the end of the day and how I am seeing the success that I'm seeing here today.
A three day sequence on every new record
New records go into a Google Sheet, get skip traced, then upload into DataSift with a direct mail first to market status. From there the team calls and texts each owner on day one, day two, and day three. Every disposition gets tracked: correct number, not interested, new lead, hot, offer, under contract.
Recycling the records nobody else could reach
Records that survive three days unreached move to an exhausted bucket for a second skip trace and a fresh round of attempts. Still nothing, and the team researches relative phone numbers in a round two bucket. Not interested prospects get a follow up every 90 days, once a quarter. The last stop is direct mail only, for a set number of touches. One September record proves the loop: weeks of calls went nowhere, then one letter got the seller to call back.
A board for every lead source
Siftline boards separate direct mail, website, Facebook, and cold calling leads, with Zapier feeding inbound forms straight onto the boards. Separate boards run acquisitions, novations and wholesale deals, short sales, and return mail.
I want to be able to visually see it. Like I'm just a visual person.
Before and After
Before DataSift
- Achieved Data Clarity
- Consistent Deal Flow
- Inconsistent Deal Flow
- Poor Marketing Flow
- Little Data Clarity
- Relied On Google Sheets
- Consistent Deal Flow
- Data Clarity / Organization
- Wholesales, Flips And Does Retail
- Strong Marketing Flow
- Didn't Understand Data Management
- Strong Real Estate Agent
- Wanted To Break Into Wholesaling But Didn't Know How
- Healthy Scale
- Data Driven Decisions
- Consistent Deals
- Strong Marketing Flow
- Inconsistent
- Little Data Insight
- Unorganized Bulk Marketing
- Strategic Focus on Niches
- Enhanced Lead Flow and Certainty
- Streamlined Marketing Process
- Efficient Use of Data
- Direct Mail & Deep Prospecting
- Broad, Unfocused Strategy
- Inconsistency in Results
- Dependency on Luck
- Marketing Clarity
- 6 Figure Months
- High Deal Volume
- Strong Marketing Flow
- Proper Data Management
- Weak Marketing Flow
- Poor Data Management
- Lack of Focus
- Manual Efforts
- Successful Scale
- Total Data Clarity
- Clear Marketing Approach
- Large Deal Spreads
- Improper Data Management
- Poor Marketing Method
- Inconsistent Deal Flow
- Strong Marketing Flow
- Clear Data Management
- Clear Data Management
- Successful Scale
- Many ways to close deals
- Large deal spreads
- Poor data management
- Unable to scale properly
- Poor marketing flow
- Smaller Deal Spreads
- Increased Deal Volume
- Platform Utilization
- Realtor Collaboration
- Funding Efforts
- Lots Of Deals
- Data Driven Decisions
- Strong Marketing Flow
- Sales And Marketing Clarity
- Poor Data Management
- Poor Marketing Flow
- Relied On Bulk Marketing
- Lack of Clarity
- Automated Acquisition
- Strong Marketing Flow
- Data Driven Decisions
- Structured Follow-ups
- Increased Lead Generation
- Achieved Sales And Marketing Clarity
- Manual Acquisition Processes
- Ineffective Marketing Flow
- Minimal Lead Insights
- Poor Follow Up Flow
- Inconsistent Lead Generation
- Lacked Sales And Marketing Clarity
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
Kasim's journey in real estate began conventionally, but it was during the Covid-19 crisis when his Facebook ad account was shut down that he realized the need for a proactive approach. A mentor already leveraging DataSift introduced him to a new perspective—a true 'a-ha' moment—shifting from a waiting game to actively hunting opportunities.
Clarity emerged as another significant 'a-ha' for Kasim. DataSift's ability to visualize and track every prospect's lifecycle provided a detailed understanding, allowing him to minimize gaps in marketing strategies and business processes.
Highlighting Kasim's success was his personalized approach in direct marketing. His 'a-ha' came when a tailored mail led to a positive conversation with a potential client, validating his strategy. Kasim emphasizes that dedication is the key to making everything work.
"DataSift brought a new level of precision to my real estate endeavors. Its tools and organization streamlined my hunt for opportunities, turning data into lucrative conversations. The system's clarity is the key that unlocked my success."
The Results
The operation has produced $100K+ in revenue while Kasim keeps his full time W-2 job. Overhead runs $2,000 to $3,000 a month for a two person team: Kasim plus one VA on data and follow up. The list data itself costs $0 because the courthouse gives it away.
Before, his deal flow depended on an ad account Facebook could switch off, and did. Now the inputs are records he pulls himself and a three day sequence his team runs on every one. On a call right before this interview, a seller he had mailed since early September thanked him for the personalized letter.
It's just a testament that everything works, man. You just got to stay committed to it.
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