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If you care about accurate comps, or cash buyers, then you might want to read this all the way through. For the last 2 years since switching away from the inadequate free Zillow data in our paid app *, we have worked tirelessly to bring you the most accurate comps that meet appraisal best practices, and the tools to perform an appraisal-like sales comparison analysis.  (* we do still use the free Zillow data on our free comps tools for demo purposes) For those in the know, our tools and premium data are by far better than most tools out there at any price. But being better than the other… Read More

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In this product update post I wanted to follow up on our most recent successful launch of support for premium data sources in the goal of our future MLS integrations coming out later this year. This post is an overview of what was changed and how those changes increase your chances of success in your business.   Latest Software Updates: Premium Data Records Support (Data Coming Soon) New Property Info Owner and Loan Data Tax Amount Data Comps and ARV Tool Updates New Proprietary Comps Selection Algorithm Comps Distance Added Comps Upload Update House Flipping and Wholesaling ROI Calculation Updates   Premium Data Record Support (Data Coming Soon) In preparation… Read More

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If you are a premium customer of REI/kit House Flipping, Wholesaling, and Real Estate Investment Software, you may have noticed some changes that have appeared in the property details page after you created a new project. This is because we have launched the first premium public record data source integration for our paid subscription customers….keeping our promise to create the ultimate deal decision support tools out there, to make your deals more profitable.   Crucial New Property Data With this release you now have access to so much more data on a target property, up to 50 data points, something our competitors simply cannot afford to provide to you. Some… Read More

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For immediate release: REIkit.com House Flipping, Wholesaling, & Real Estate Investment Software has released another premium data launch that will forever improve your ability to get more deals done faster and more profitably. This time, as promised, we launched loan history data, now available in all of our premium subscription plans nationwide.  This is the second part of our premium data upgrade for all of our paid subscription customers. You can read about the first part of our premium data upgrade where we launched premium property data to give you a complete picture of your target property here: House Flipping, Wholesaling, & Real Estate Investment Software Product Update: Premium Data… Read More

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The REI/kit Lead Marketing Pages and Seller Leads CRM are about to launch! You already know that I built REI/kit to allow you to become an expert at deal due diligence, with tools for running comps and calculating ARV the right way, estimating rehab costs, analyzing deals based on multiple criteria, and marketing those deals to your cash buyers list or lenders using the most trustworthy reports in the business. In the process, over thousands of people have used our tools as part of their real estate investing systems with over 50,000 deals evaluated to date. As you can imagine, this has given me the opportunity to talk with a… Read More

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The launch of Lead Pages in REI/kit, was an instrumental piece of the deal creation machinery to ensure your lead generation techniques keep up with the times and give you an always on channel for motivated seller leads. (If you’re just tuning in, you can read all about the launch of the NEW Distressed Seller Lead Pages & Seller Leads CRM) In this update I’ll cover some of the questions that I am most often asked when it comes to the Lead Pages feature. What are lead pages and how are they different from a regular web page? Why lead pages are a necessary component of your marketing strategy in… Read More

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If you haven’t heard from me in a couple weeks, I want you to know there’s a pretty darn good reason. Although I took a day off to recover after our big Lead Pages and CRM launch in November, there really is no rest for the weary as we’re smashing through the rest of 2018 to get ready for 2019. Today I want to tell you about: (1) a couple big product improvements that we released that will dramatically improve the efficiency of your due diligence, also reducing the potential for data entry errors; (2) what’s coming up next; and (3) an update on what we’re working on for the… Read More

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I am happy to announce that the Teams feature has finally been released as part of the REI/kit software for flipping houses. In this software product update I will discuss the following: What is the Teams feature? What are some common use cases for the Teams feature? On which plans is it available? I am on one of the supported plans, how do I invite my team?   What is the Teams feature? With the Teams feature of the flipping software, you will now be able to invite other team members into your account, and only give them the specific permissions that they need to do their jobs. This will… Read More

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Continuing in our tradition of constantly delivering more and more value, and aggressively executing our roadmap, I’m proud to announce that we have released the email messaging functionality into the REI/kit CRM.   What is CRM Email Messaging? Where previously your REI/kit CRM was used to manage all of your lead details, deal analysis and marketing projects, and tasks, you can now easily send emails to leads from within your REI/kit CRM.  If the lead replies to the email, it will even be automatically recorded in the CRM keeping track of all of your lead communications in one place.   How does REI/kit Email streamline my business? If you have… Read More

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The most massive update to the REI/kit suite of tools since the release of Websites is now launched! Automated Email Follow Up Campaigns within REI/kit are going to fundamentally change your business. In this post there will be a feature by feature deep dive of the new Email Marketing system, to show you how the tool makes it ridiculously easy to follow up with your leads to start getting into more deals. This post covers: – The NEW REI/kit Dashboard – What Email Marketing Automation is – Deep Dive of Email & Task Automation features – Email Analytics: Opened and Clicked Indicators   Brand New REI/kit Dashboard REI/kit has expanded… Read More

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If you have been with us for a while then you should be getting used to the regular frequency with which I send new significant product releases that we launch in the software. It seems like it was just yesterday that we released email automation, which followed investor websites, which followed the CRM, which followed … you get the point. Although the software has already evolved into one of the most powerful tools in your real estate investing toolbox, there was one thing that has eluded us for far too long…until now. Motivated Seller Leads! The problem with adding leads to REI/kit has always been the ability to source high… Read More

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We have launched the Phone Numbers tool and Call Lead Capture feature! In the REI/kit Dashboard, we’ve built out the tools you need to find more properties to wholesale and flip, by getting highly motivated seller leads with the Leads List tool, having those leads skip-traced and processed right into the CRM, creating Analysis Projects right from the Lead Profile, and calling and emailing those leads immediately. Now we fold in the Call Lead Capture feature into REI/kit! Here is a brief walkthrough of these features that you’ll be hard-pressed to find anywhere else: Choose a local and toll-free virtual number based on your marketing strategy Forward calls to your… Read More

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Direct Mail Postcards are Now Launched in REI/kit (Virtual Real Estate Wholesaling Marketing Just Got Real)   Hi there, There is a massive shift going on in the marketing channels used by the virtual wholesale real estate industry, requiring expert marketers to completely rethink how they’re getting their message out.  Anyone using one single marketing channel to get their message out right now is feeling the pinch. Let’s take cold calling for example. We’ve all gotten car warranty phone calls. Like me, you likely stopped picking up the phone, and if you or your VA’s cold call leads, you probably noticed that fewer and fewer leads pick… Read More

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Software Update – Limited Zapier Beta Program Opening Announcement The team at REI/kit has been burning the midnight oil on the Next Big Thing in our suite of wholesaling and house flipping tools: our highly anticipated Zapier integration! Until now, REI/kit has always been a complete all-in-one system, and proudly so. -We launched in 2016 with our deal analysis tools, with thousands of investors having performed over 255,000 property analyses to date. -Then came our one-click websites, virtual phone numbers, CRM 1.0 and 2.0, and lead lists generator. -We were the first software that integrated five outbound marketing channels into a single software – text, ringless voicemail, email, direct mail… Read More

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nashville, TN – REI/kit, the leading real estate wholesaling software, is proud to announce the launch of its groundbreaking SmartText AI technology powered by Open AI’s ChatGPT. SmartText AI is designed to enable real estate wholesalers and acquisition teams to use Artificial Intelligence to generate personalized emails and SMS messages with unique content for their prospects, all at the click of a button. SmartText AI is the first ChatGPT AI integration of its type for any real estate wholesaling software, and only available in REI/kit. This release marks a major milestone in advancing the state of the art in the real estate lead marketing industry with integrated… Read More

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If you know anything about how we operate, then you know that our primary goal is to provide you with the tools and data to help make you a successful real estate investor. Whether you’re wholesaling houses, or house flipping, or finding rentals by marketing direct to seller, we are only successful if you are successful. To that end, after spending many months in product development, writing over 19,000 lines of code, and building out a completely new highly scalable and secure infrastructure, I am proud to release the next generation product in our suite of real estate investor tools: REI/kit Real Estate Investor Websites. REI/kit real estate investor websites… Read More

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