,"I do potentially have sellers who say to me, 'We don't want to list it on the market but if you have somebody, bring them to us.' Oftentimes, either it's a high profile person and they don't want anyone to know their apartment's on the market and/or they don't want the listing to get stale, you know, by sitting on the market for a long time. So basically they want you to try to find a buyer without it actually being publicized.
Benalloul recommends buyers look into unlisted properties"if, in fact, they're not finding what they want on the market and/or they've spotted like a certain home or a certain piece of land that they really want. There definitely can be deals made that way. And potentially, if a person's not marketing the property, you probably will have less competition. So you're not going to be bid out by other bidders.
"I would start with either a letter or an email and then, depending on the response, I would then pick up the phone and call. I've even had people ask to have meetings, to meet for a coffee or meet for a drink to discuss it." J.D. “Jay” Rinehart, Jr., a second-generation realtor in Rock Hill, South Carolina, told TMRW that"sending an email out is probably the lowest response rate that you will get." He recommends"talking to people on the telephone and literally knocking on doors, hanging door hangers on a door and then saying, 'Hey, we are looking at buying a house ...
But no matter the method, Benalloul advises to"try to give a little bit of personal information about ... I would definitely try to give a profile of my family or myself.
$$$$$$$MONEY,MONEY,MONEY! If you offer enough almost everything is forsale. Cynical, yes. True, yes.