Without exaggeration, my entire business has been built around meeting clients from lease listings I’ve posted on Craigslist. Over 90% of my business has, in some form or other, originated from Craigslist - either by meeting someone who’s directly called me from the site, or referred to me by someone I’ve met from Craigslist. This quickly turned into a six-figure per year income from continuous Craigslist leads and referral business. Here’s how I did it.
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Note: Craigslist is primarily US-based. There may be similar sites that work best with your country (Kijiji in Canada, for instance).
Disclosure: Craigslist alone won’t make you millions. This took me years to cultivate - it took me several years to build it up to the point where I was actually making over $100,000 just from craigslist leads and referrals from craigslist leads. It won’t be a get-rich-quick technique but it CAN add tremendous value to what you’re already doing.
1. Go to Craigslist (I KNOW someone will ask me this…so here it is…step one…Craigslist.com)
2. When posting, I’ve found longer titles work better than shorter titles - ALL CAPS work best. If you use symbols like stars ★ or brackets, shorter titles do better. Use this carefully as it can be a bit spammy.
3. The body of the message should be kept simple, clear and concise. First thing to mention is your name and contact information (email and phone)
4. Mention that you have access to other properties and that they should contact you (if you’re a Realtor and want to work with leads)
5. Mention the specifics of the house - bedrooms, bathrooms, price, and square footage.
6. Describe the house in extreme details. The more keywords you use in your description, the more it’ll come up on Craigslist search results.
7. If you’re a Realtor - DISCLOSE that you’re a Realtor.
8. MAKE SURE TO HAVE GOOD PICTURES. This is essential.
9. Make sure to pick up your phone and return emails as soon as they come in. Otherwise you can lose the client.
10. Do not renew your ads. Just continue posting new ads and letting the old ones continue to run.
11. Ideally have several ads going at the same time, this increases the likelihood of someone reaching out.
That’s it! It’s pretty simple. Do this regularly, continue adding new lease listings when the current ones get rented out, continue helping people with their rentals, and these clients will eventually turn into buyers, sellers, referrals, and potentially great friends. It takes time but it’s paid off big for me.
Thanks for watching!
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Suggested reading:
The Millionaire Real Estate Agent: http://goo.gl/TPTSVC
Your money or your life: https://goo.gl/fmlaJR
The Millionaire Real Estate Investor: https://goo.gl/sV9xtl
How to Win Friends and Influence People: https://goo.gl/1f3Meq
Think and grow rich: https://goo.gl/SSKlyu
Awaken the giant within: https://goo.gl/niIAEI
The Book on Rental Property Investing: https://goo.gl/qtJqFq
Learn how to make money as a Real Estate Agent, build your network of clients, and the exact steps I’ve used to grow my business from $0 to over $120 million in sales: $50 off with code ThankYou50 for a limited time: https://goo.gl/UFpi4c
Note: Craigslist is primarily US-based. There may be similar sites that work best with your country (Kijiji in Canada, for instance).
Disclosure: Craigslist alone won’t make you millions. This took me years to cultivate - it took me several years to build it up to the point where I was actually making over $100,000 just from craigslist leads and referrals from craigslist leads. It won’t be a get-rich-quick technique but it CAN add tremendous value to what you’re already doing.
1. Go to Craigslist (I KNOW someone will ask me this…so here it is…step one…Craigslist.com)
2. When posting, I’ve found longer titles work better than shorter titles - ALL CAPS work best. If you use symbols like stars ★ or brackets, shorter titles do better. Use this carefully as it can be a bit spammy.
3. The body of the message should be kept simple, clear and concise. First thing to mention is your name and contact information (email and phone)
4. Mention that you have access to other properties and that they should contact you (if you’re a Realtor and want to work with leads)
5. Mention the specifics of the house - bedrooms, bathrooms, price, and square footage.
6. Describe the house in extreme details. The more keywords you use in your description, the more it’ll come up on Craigslist search results.
7. If you’re a Realtor - DISCLOSE that you’re a Realtor.
8. MAKE SURE TO HAVE GOOD PICTURES. This is essential.
9. Make sure to pick up your phone and return emails as soon as they come in. Otherwise you can lose the client.
10. Do not renew your ads. Just continue posting new ads and letting the old ones continue to run.
11. Ideally have several ads going at the same time, this increases the likelihood of someone reaching out.
That’s it! It’s pretty simple. Do this regularly, continue adding new lease listings when the current ones get rented out, continue helping people with their rentals, and these clients will eventually turn into buyers, sellers, referrals, and potentially great friends. It takes time but it’s paid off big for me.
Thanks for watching!
Add me on Instagram: GPStephan
Add me on Snapchat: GPStephan
Suggested reading:
The Millionaire Real Estate Agent: http://goo.gl/TPTSVC
Your money or your life: https://goo.gl/fmlaJR
The Millionaire Real Estate Investor: https://goo.gl/sV9xtl
How to Win Friends and Influence People: https://goo.gl/1f3Meq
Think and grow rich: https://goo.gl/SSKlyu
Awaken the giant within: https://goo.gl/niIAEI
The Book on Rental Property Investing: https://goo.gl/qtJqFq
Thanks for the template.
I don't think it was mentioned if the terms were on a lease or if it was month to month. It just says 25k per month. Thanks
does this still work now?
MY LISTING GOT FLAGGED AGAIN AGAIN .CAN YOU TELL ME WHATS THE REASON
The fake voice makes it hard to listen
Anyone noticed how much Graham's voice has changed on his newer videos. He sounded really natural here.
Hey! How do you do this if you have no listings?
thanks for posting this! I was just trying to find out how often should I post to get my fit bit sold through craigslist. I went through so many videos already, I can't watch anymore! but you answered it. Thank you so much! 🙂
☺☻♥♦ 4 Years later & Craigslist charging $5 a post! ☺☻♥♦
The other option is FB Marketplace, however very buggy and not smooth… and tons of spammers…
Watched your video and read your responses to comments and I've come to the conclusion you're one of the most down to earth philanthropists on YouTube or anywhere. You deserve all the success you've had and only wish you good vibes man. Keep it 💯
Great content.
Wealth of information here wow
I wouldn't include my phone
I will try this and post a vid about it if it works so subscribe to my channel!
You are amazingggg!!!!!!
A little late here. Wish I started watching your channel a long time ago, always some interesting and helpful stuff. I am taking and nearing the end of an online real estate course and am feeling a little anxious about getting started and all that… if this illness ever lets me anyway lol. but you and your videos are always a tremendous help inspiration and one of the reasons I even became interested in real estate as a career(and got my discover it secured card). watching these videos and learning a little here and there really makes it seem more and more of a possibility for me to succeed. keep up the good videos.
25000 a monthhhh dammmmnmnnnn major housing crisis!!! 30 year mortgage what does that equallll where i live people cant afford 1000 a month!!🤣🤣🤣 how do you get a realtor or rental owners base to do their properties??
Hi Graham, thanks for sharing. This was posted 2 years ago, would you say Craigslist is still your go to platform for posting real estate rental? What do you think about Facebook market place in comparison to Craigslist? Thank you and keep up the good work! sipping on my 20 cents coffee
I am doing CL real estate postings from past 5 years if anyone looking skilled CL real estate postings expert at lower price and contact me.
Graham, do you think this will still work in 2020?
If you use other peoples pictures you will get fined $250 per post!
FOR ALL OF YOU TRYING TO THIS METHOD DON'T! YOU WILL BE FINED HEAVILY IF YOU ARE POSTING LISTINGS WITHOUT THE PERMISSION OF LISTING AGENT OR PROPERTY MANAGEMENT COMPANY
Craigslist is charging $5 per post
It's 2020, and posting your phone number will draw a lot of scammers. They will message you telling you they are interested, then ask you to enter a code for "verification" that YOU are real. DO NOT DO THAT!! They are trying to steal American phone numbers so they can get an American Google number to spam or scam Americans
What if you have no houses for lease or sale and you are just working with buyers? How would we then utuilZe
If you were living in Europe, what will you then have used for finding tenants? In Denmark, where I am living. Craigslist only exists in Copenhagen and that's like the most expensive place to buy a Real Estate.
Hope you can help.
Grate video! 😛
Will a realtor get a tenant for you and also set up payment?
So the listing you can borrow from agents in the office is just a regular listing for a sale or does the listing have to be a leasing to use for the Craiglist ad? Only part I’m confused on
Ty so much you rock. Just one problem I really didn't understand the last part of reposting it got a little bit confusing if you can elaborate I would greatly appreciate it. Ty
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How do I start from zero everything??
Wow. Amazing. Thank you so much! I'm going to double down on Craigslist, now!
Hi Graham, thanks for the informative sharing; What do you say exactly to the prospective tenants who called you from Cragslist to get them to allow you to be their tenant agent for the property? Because they might think you are representing the landlord as you listed the property on Cragslist, (but actually the listing belongs to your colleague)
Thanks again man, for the Craigslist "template" you sent me a while ago. I've been getting crazy amounts of leads. Been doing it consistently now for 3 weeks (all lease posts). Closed 1 lease and turned in two apps, got two buyers pre approved and 11 leases I'm working on as we speak! This stuff works!!! Just got a phone call yesterday form a buyer who's budget is 940k "holly SH*T"!! Thank you so much!