About
After accepting the fact that I am unemployable I left the corporate world and became self-unemployed in early 2004 to dive full time into my up until then, hobby of investing in real estate.
With a background in Information Technology and a seemingly useless Master of Science degree in Information Architecture I started flippin’ houses. I soon disovered the joy of flippin’ contracts, otherwise know as wholesaling. And realized I needed leads, lots of leads.
After going the newspaper, door hanger, postcard route I started noticing online lead generation sites for motivated sellers. I contacted the folks at these services and quickly discovered that I would need to spend around 5-7 Thousand dollars per month to get access to their online leads for my area of Houston, TX. I was about to pull out the ol credit card when I had a V8 moment. “Jack, your an IT guy, put up your own site”. So with a few days of work and $27 dollars for hosting and software I put up my first “We Buy Houses” site. I didn’t know squat about SEO so I quickly signed up for Googel Adwords and two days later I bought my first house from an internet lead.
Since then I’ve been buying and selling houses on the internet steadily every month. I’ve also built up a nice side business doing internet marketing for Real Estate related service companies such as mortgage brokers, hard money lenders, rehab contractors, plumbers, you name it.
I’ve been able to build a decent portfolio of sites for generating leads for other investors and specialty niches such as the owner financing market. I also run coaching groups for those real estate entrepreneurs that want to get their hands dirty, learn more and possibly manage their own Internet presence.
I started jackmize.com to give a little boost to those out there that are looking for a place to start or maybe get a few valuable nuggets of information to head off into tech land and expand their business at the speed of technolgy or maybe I was just bored. Either way you win.
