Real Estate Social Media

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Every day, millions use social media for real estate investing to generate new leads, build relationships and find investors.

For years, one of the biggest challenges investors faced was finding deals and getting more leads. No matter if you were investing in a foreclosure or a short sale, finding investors to buy your property was always a challenge. Generally, investors placed newspaper ads to build their lists and hired bird dogs around the country to find properties.

Today, it's much easier. Now, all you have to do is go on popular social networking sites such as Craigslist, Backpage and other real estate sites to find properties and potential investors. Why place newspaper ads and make phone calls every day when you can go online and search for leads, even down to specific zip codes? (I'm not saying …show more content…

Most social media sites are absolutely free and draw millions of visitors from around the world. With the click of a button, anyone in the world can see your lead generation website, blog or ads on sites such as ActiveRain.com. Amazing, isn't it? You no longer have to spend lots of time looking for leads and real estate investors; if anything, they'll come straight to you.

And popular social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn expose your real estate investing business to the world even more. It doesn't matter if you're in Anaheim, California or Annapolis, Maryland, social media gives everyone the same tools to succeed. For real estate investing professionals, it's a new day.

You might never meet a real estate investor in Singapore, but you might have a relationship with them because you follow them on Twitter and are a fan on Facebook.

Social media is a common thread, connecting people of different backgrounds and in geographic areas.
One thing is for sure: With 640 million users on sites such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn, social media is here to

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