How to Remove Landlocked Properties Using The Land Portal
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July 18, 2024Today we are going to show you how to narrow down your land search to exclude landlocked properties on The Land Portal.
Why should we remove landlocked properties?
In land flipping, a landlocked property means it does not have road access, and will be more difficult to flip and sell for a profit.
In some cases, you can actually build an access road to the property, but this strategy requires extensive knowledge, time working with the county and we promise, it will cost you a pretty penny.
Instead, when we are pulling data for land flipping, we want to filter our search results to remove landlocked properties, that way we don't have to worry about them appearing in our data when we go to choose a market to target.
Luckily, we are able to filter out landlocked properties using the great land flipping tool The Land Portal. Today we are going to show you step by step how to do it so you can make the land flipping process more efficient and score better land deals!
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The Land Portal: Road Frontage Tool
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After getting logged in, you're screen should look like the example below.
On the left-hand side of the screen there is a menu.
Click on Filtered Search. A white box will appear with many different filtered search options.
For now, we are just going to check the Vacant Lots box.
Scroll down a bit and you will see State and County text boxes.
We are using Macon Georgia for this example, but feel free to type in any state & county you wish.
Scroll down a bit more until you see the Acres option.
We are going to put 5 in the first box and leave the second box blank.
Hit the green Apply button at the bottom to apply the filtered search.
Since we are are focusing on landlocked properties today, we are now going to filter our search down even further.
Going back over to the Filtered Search screen, scroll down until you see Land Locked.
Select "Yes" and click List view at the bottom next to Apply.
List View should now be showing in the white box.
Next, click the "Show on Map" button.
You're map screen should look similar to the example below, showing lots of green location markers that represent all landlocked properties in Macon County Georgia (or wherever you choose to search).
Zoom in to double check that the filter is showing us landlocked properties.
You can see in the example below that the property in red has no public access roads going to it. The filter worked properly!
Go back to Filtered Search on the lefthand side of the screen and scroll down to the Land Locked option once again.
This time, we are going to select "No" and hit Apply.
After applying this new filter, the map will show you properties that are NOT landlocked and have public road access.
Test the filter by zooming in and checking if properties have road access. In the example below, you can clearly see at least two public access roads that run along the property.
Now that we know our filter is pulling the correct data, we are going to go to the bottom of the List View screen and click on Save list.
A new box will appear that says Add to Saved Search.
Make sure Create New List is selected, give your list a name and then click Save.
Private Easements
Be aware that The Land Portal pulls road frontage data based off County Roads, Highways & Public Roads, but it does not recognize private easements.
We still want to add properties that are on private roads to our list as they technically have road access and are still good candidates for land flipping.
Follow the next steps to private road access properties to your saved list, and lastly we will export the data!
Similar to the first step, click on Filtered Search and scroll down in the white box until you see Land Locked. Select Yes in the dropdown menu and then click Apply.
Next click on List View.
There will be a check box next to ACRES in the top row.
Make sure this box is UNCHECKED. You're screen should look similar to the example below.
Now that we have only landlocked properties showing on our map, we are going to zoom in and look for "clusters" of properties similar to the example below.
If you look closely, you will see a private road running alongside this particular cluster of properties (marked by dotted green line).
This is a solid indicator of there being private road access to all of these properties, and we want to add them to our Saved list.
If you click on the green location icon, you will be able to check the box and then select "Add to Saved List" in the white popup box. Select the Saved List you want it to be added to and click Save.
Add any properties you want to any Saved list using this same strategy.
A new box will appear that says "List added successfully!"
Click on Go to Saved List.
You should now see the Saved Searches screen, similar to the example below.
This is where you will find any list you've saved on The Land Portal.
You can also Export any of these lists directly from this screen by clicking on the Export button in the top right corner.
Lastly, click the Confirm button when you're ready to Export and your download should start shortly after!
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Dan: We don’t want to go after five acres. That’s worth a million dollars in some hot, hot Miami, Florida area. That’s not this business model. This business model is one, two, three counties removed from our trial and error of building a business. That’s what we’ve found to be most successful to get deals.
Ron: You have crazy goals.
You need to be using all these strategies. You need to do direct mail. You need to do follow up tech. But if you have a lower budget, starting, starting with texting, starting with cold calling is an amazing spot. And so many people grow their business so fast with those strategies. It might sound complicated.
Selling. You do not need a realtor. You do not need a license. If you don’t choose to go with a realtor, getting good marketing pictures, getting drone photographers out there, getting on land. com, getting on Facebook, getting buyers to go to your land.
Dan: I see the member success discord channel and you see their checks that they’re like, wow, my first property, it’s an 86, 000 check, 48, 000 check, all these crazy profit numbers.
And this is when you’re like, Holy crap, this actually works. Hey everyone. In this video we’re talking about our land flipping blueprint. What took us from 0 to a 10 million business. And just 24 or 36 months. And in this, we’re going to talk about everything from, you know, sending out your marketing to acquiring the deal, to selling the property.
And that’s what we do in land flipping run. We buy property for cheap, usually about 40 to 50 percent of market value and relist it for, uh, More and make money profit based on the margins you have there and it’s as simple as that, Ron.
Ron: Yeah, exactly. So excited to kind of go over this blueprint how we’ve built our business and how you guys can do the same
Dan: Yeah So first thing guys is when you’re choosing a market or when you’re starting this business The first thing to do step one in the process is choose a market a lot of people get caught up on this one because there are 3, 300 counties, 50 states, 3, 300 counties in like 100, 000 cities.
If you just look at all the cities. So there’s so many options to choose from. How do you start a market? I feel like we have a fairly bulletproof process for that run. And I wanted to walk them through what that looks like. What are we looking at? How do we choose a market? And what’s that look like?
Ron: Yeah.
I mean, really the keys to choosing a market in this business is we do this business in rural America. We’re not doing this typically when you’re starting out, you’re not doing this business in the middle of cities, urban areas. We want to be more rural. A lot of people start. Where they live and go a few counties out of where they live and then run some of our quick county selection tests to kind of see what fits the criteria.
That’s like the most simple way to do it is if you’re in Southwest Ohio like we are. Okay, let’s go a little bit more rural out of Cincinnati where we are and choose five, seven counties, run some county selection tests and go from there.
Dan: What are those county selection tests look like?
Ron: So it’s going to be days on market.
So how long are properties sitting in the area? We don’t want to be in too hot of an area, which means properties move too fast. And we also don’t want to be in the area too slow, where when we do acquire properties, it’s not going to move. The other thing we look at is recent sold properties, like how many properties are selling, how many pieces of land are selling in those areas in the last 30, 60, 90.
Six months, uh, all those different things and then also for sale. So when you are acquiring properties in a certain area, you’re going to have direct competition with what is for sale. So we don’t want there to be too much on the market. It’s like having too much inventory or something. There’s too many options.
Like it’s going to be more difficult to sell what you have. If you have too much inventory, if there’s too much inventory on the market, the, uh, there’s more supply than demand.
Dan: Yeah. And the goal of County selection and market selection. I should say is to come up with areas where you, one, you think you’re going to be able to acquire property.
So competition, not crazy high, right? We’re going to analyze the competition. And then two, when you do get that property back in that lead back and you buy the property, you know you’re going to be able to sell it in a reasonable amount of time for the money you’re asking for. And that’s one of the other data points we look at is what’s five acres selling for just to give us a sense of the price.
Cause we don’t want to go after. typically five acres. That’s worth a million dollars in some hot, hot, you know, Miami, Florida area. That’s not this business model. This business model is one, two, three counties removed. Um, it’s, it’s, it’s. From our trial and error of building a business, that’s what we found to be most successful to get deals, rinse, repeat in a very easy fashion.
And that’s what we’re typically looking for is making sure the competition is low enough so we can acquire and making sure we’re going to be able to sell it fast.
Ron: For sure. That’s, I mean, that’s really the basis of county selection, area selection. You can always get more precise with things. But for people just starting that base is like the perfect starting point.
I think.
Dan: Absolutely. Let’s move on to step two in the process. So you identify the market. You have an area you want to market, whether it’s zip code, city, county, we do a lot of things by county base just because it’s rural land and counties is a good way to target those. Um, number two, how are we going to acquire these properties?
We have a market. How are we going to get leads? And that’s where. Probably 80 percent of our focus is in this business in real estate in general and investing in acquiring under market value properties in general. That’s the most important thing is how are you going to get those highly motivated, highly qualified sellers.
And we do three things. We direct mails the most common, especially with blind offers that has an offer on it, um, which would essentially would say, Hey Ron, I want to buy your five acres for 55, 000. This is what are the process looks like, blah, blah, blah. If you’re interested, give us a call and fill out this purchase agreement.
Um, so that’s literally an offer in the mail. Another way is neutral letters. So direct mail, blind offers and neutral letters where it doesn’t have a price on it. It’s just more like, Hey, I’m looking to buy land in the area. I saw you own land. More broad. The other big ones are texting, which is really, really big and really efficient, efficient as well.
Um, a little bit more time upfront, but texting has been really good for our business and other people’s businesses in the space as well. And it’s something we teach and preach for sure. And then lastly, cold calling. Um, and those are the three main ones. There’s Google PPC and all that stuff. But using these three pillars that have been around for so long, direct mail is the most surprising and the most effective.
In my opinion, texting is also very, very effective, but you talk about cold calling, texting and direct mail. Those are not going anywhere. And there’s something tried and proven and they work very, very well. If your systems improper, if your proper systems are in place.
Ron: Yeah. I think with your Market strategy marketing strategy.
You need to fit what you what’s your situation your personal situation your financial? Financial situation your goals over the next 12 months if you have crazy goals You need to be using all these strategies. You need to do direct mail You need to do follow up text, but if you have a lower budget starting Starting with texting, starting with cold calling is an amazing spot.
And so many people grow their business so fast with those strategies. So you really need to align. That’s what we try to do when we’re talking to people is aligning their situation with what marketing strategy they should use.
Dan: And their situation mainly being the amount of money you have to spend because direct mail is more expensive than texting and cold calling.
So the amount of money you have ready to invest and the amount of time you have because there’s trade offs. Mail takes less time. but it’s more money because you get less, you get less leads back. You get high, high, high quality leads coming in, but it’s a less, when you text someone, you get a 20 percent response rate.
When you send mail, you don’t get that kind of response rate, but most of your response rate from text are unqualified, unhappy people responding to stop and get off that, right? Just we’re talking about response rate in general. So that’s what we look at is time and how much money you have. So step one was choosing a market.
Step two is actually marketing to that market to acquire some leads and to get your marketing mail, texting all that stuff out. Step three is actually acquiring, negotiating and acquiring the, the property. So What I mean by that is you have leads coming in from step two. And now how do we convert those leads in the, you know, getting them to sign that purchase agreement that you’re going to use to actually get this process, get it sent over to title.
That’s this process is actually acquiring because this is a really big step. You have a lot of leads coming in. You’re texting cold calling. The leads are coming in. We got to get them to sign. That’s a big, big step in this. If you just left this step out, we wouldn’t have deals. You can’t just leave it.
This is a massive step. You’re negotiating. Some sellers are going to want more money. Some people might say, I want 5, 000. Sometimes you’re going to have to go and say, Oh, I priced a little too high. I need to retract my offer and give you a new offer. We don’t like to do that, but it does sometimes happen.
Um, and you know, this is a big step because you’re going to get them under contract. So this is about getting the seller under contract.
Ron: Yeah. So a lot that goes into this, you’re going to be reviewing deals, not necessarily getting deep into due diligence. We’re going to talk more about that, but this is all pre being under contract with a seller.
So yeah, you are getting these leads in via, uh, via text, via mail. via cold calling. However it is, it doesn’t matter. The process is the same. And you, a lot of people kind of, I don’t want to say skip over this step, Dan, but it is such an important thing. Being able to talk to these sellers, being able to negotiate them, being comfortable in negotiating is a huge, huge thing.
And that’s what really separates a lot of people doing land flipping is they’re willing to negotiate. They’re willing to have tough conversations with sellers like you were kind of talking about.
Dan: Absolutely. And I think the, um, the key of this business is in this step. It’s, you know, being aggressive on the phones, calling people back when they’re calling you fast, uh, setting up that next call, following up again, um, negotiating, negotiating up when you need to negotiating down.
Sometimes they want 5, 000. You’ll stick your word at 25, 000. They want 30 and you’re going to sign. So it’s just reading the room, understanding what their wants and needs are collecting information from them, and then coming up with the solution and getting it under contract.
Ron: Yep. I mean, this is sales.
We’re not calling this selling because That kind of can get confusing with selling the land on the backside. But this is like the sales step in terms like you need to be able to talk on the phone to people. And you can learn all these things too. Like it’s not something you have to come in and be an A plus salesperson immediately.
These are going to be hot leads that are coming into you.
Dan: Yeah, you can always be a D minus D plus salesperson who’s not that comfortable, not that good. And by getting reps and being in our calls and really, really focusing on your sales game and your sales ability. You can take a D minus salesperson and get a B plus sales person within a couple of months.
I think of just consistency, practice, relistening. It’s really uncomfortable. Relistening to your own calls, things like that. But that’s, that’s all basic. So after you acquire a property, we have it under contract. So we marketed, we got leads back. Now we did our sales job and got it under contract, right?
Ron, the next step in the process is due diligence, making sure we’re buying the right property. The right parcel and there’s no defects and there’s no crazy restrictions making sure we’re going to double our money and make money And and along with this with the due diligence process is the transaction process, which is step four due diligence and transaction the transaction
Ron: Yeah, and I I want to it’s pretty key in this blueprint guys due diligence does not come before that That salesy that acquisition part for a reason.
Some people, every lead that comes in, they start doing due diligence. That’s not the way to do this business. You need to get a commitment from the seller, which was step three, going on due diligence. What you’re doing here. You’re making sure that the deal makes sense. You’re making sure that You there’s no wetlands the or there’s minimal wetlands.
The deal makes sense. There’s utilities There’s road access all these different things. The title is clean. So that is what this step looks like as a whole There’s a lot that goes into due diligence We have a really nice due diligence checklist that kind of takes you through the whole thing But that’s really what this step looks like is making sure the deal checks out and then you’ll take that to title This is part of that step as well You’ll take it to title and actually buy the property
Dan: correct and title is fairly simple A lot of things will come up but it’s Uh, if you have, if you’re in land communities or if you’re around other people, you ask those questions, you get them, you know, title is pretty systematic for the most part.
There will be things that come up, but you, this, this is where you need to put your due diligence hat on and, and swap it out because in this step before we’re acquiring, we’re in sales. The salespeople want to make the, the, uh, property work and the price work and everything due diligence. You put on your due diligence hat and you’re looking for things that are wrong with the property or things that could prevent you from doubling your money or prevent you from selling the property.
Um, it’s a crucial part in the business just to make sure everything’s smooth. The transaction is going to go smooth. You’re going to be able to sell it fast. All of that stuff. Along with this in the transaction process, this is where you’re going to go and line up funding. So typically You know, we fund deals.
We fund a lot of deals. Um, there’s other deal funders that you can raise private money. You can use your own money or you can double close. So you don’t need to use any of your own money. Um, this is stuff we all have laid out, but those are the main options for funding a deal. This is where you’ll line it up.
There’s tons and tons of funding available in the communities. And um, if you have a good deal, you’ll get funding. And then there’s another solution that we use when, You know, say a seller wants, we offered 25, 000. The property is going to sell for 50, 000. The seller wants 37, 000. Still 000 a margin there.
That’s when something, and you can’t get them down from that 37, 000. You’re trying to pull them down to make it make sense. That’s where things like that double closing that we teach really comes into play. It’s a big, uh, it’s step B. We can’t get them at step a on the agree on the offer price. What we really wanted at step B, we can double close, but lining up the funding for when you need funding.
If you’re buying the deal, I’m going to list it. Which leads me to number five. So we have all of it. We bought it, we bought the property, the transaction went through. Now we have to market the land to flip it and make our margin.
Ron: A hundred percent. Like this is where you, you, you make your money on the buy.
You really do, but this is where you need to follow through and like actually realize that money that you made. So yeah, this is step five. Like Dan said, you are marketing the property. If you choose to go with a realtor, great, they’re going to handle quite a bit of it. If you don’t choose to go with a realtor, getting good marketing pictures, getting drone photographers out there, getting it on the MLS, getting on land.
com, getting on Facebook, getting buyers to go to your land. So working with buyers to help them get to your land. And it might sound complicated selling. You do not need a realtor. You do not need a license. A lot of people ask us that you don’t need a license to do any of this, to do transactions. So. This is that step.
Like you are, you want to market now to as many potential buyers and as many different ways as possible so you can reach the most potential buyers. And it kind of takes care of itself from there.
Dan: Exactly. You got great pictures. You got a great description. You have a good price, which is big, making sure you’re listing.
Like, what is your listing price? You bought it for 25, 000. What’s the market telling you to resell it at? Making sure confirming all that, making sure you’re competitive. As soon as you overprice something leads aren’t going to come in when you when you price things, right? You’re going to get flooded with leads and pricing is the most important part of this Um, whether you’re using a realtor or not, like ron mentioned there’s pros and cons to both of those that we you know It’s a big part of the program as well Um, but overall marketing the property is just the goal is to get it off your plate as quick as possible Um going over that Two is actually selling the property, which is number six.
So you market to the property, you have leads coming in, you got offers coming in, accepting those offers and actually selling the property and going through step, uh, four, which was the transaction again, just on the other side of it.
Ron: Yeah. So then you’re going through title on the backside. And one of the keys is like making sure you’re accepting good offers, making sure you’re accepting offers that are favorable to you as a seller.
If there’s 90 days of due diligence, think about how that’s going to make you feel on day 89. If they back out, like you want to try to accept favorable offers. Once you get an accepted offer, you’re taking it to title. If they have a realtor in, it might be a little different, but you’re basically repeating step four, like you said, and going through title.
And at the end of that, that’s when you get paid.
Dan: Absolutely. And that’s when the, the hard works almost over for that part. Like you got through acquiring, you got through marketing, got the That’s, this is the reward. Like this is the most fun step. You’re getting paid, right? As soon as that money comes, you know, a lot of the people in the community, Ron, I see the member success discord channel and you see their checks that they’re like, wow, my first property and it’s an 86, 000 check, 48, 000 check, all these crazy profit numbers.
And this is when you’re like, holy crap, this actually works. And it’s proof of concept, which leads me to number seven is just rinse, repeat, grow and scale.
Ron: Yep. I mean, that’s the name of the game. I’m Mike Wall. You’re. This isn’t happening one at a time, guys. Like you could be doing three of these at the same time, your first mailer, you could’ve got three deals, but at the same time, like to scale up, you need to be consistent with it.
Like Dan said, rinse, repeat, do it again. And like doing that at scale, doing more at the same time, and then continuing to do that is how you build this business. Up to an eight figure business, a seven figure business doing 100, 000 a month. And that’s the reality of it.
Dan: And the part that you want, the biggest part of this business is consistency with the marketing.
So consistency with step two, consistently sending out texts, cold call, mail, whatever your strategy are that we come up with together, consistently doing that. Right, Ron. And that’s the biggest thing there. Because when that consistency going is going on, That means you’re getting leads, which is your step three, right?
And you’re negotiating as long as step two is happening and you’re sending out it, which requires step one of choosing a market, obviously, and all that. It just, that’s the whole funnel. It all starts with sending your mail and, you know, sending your text out. You get the leads, you go through the process.
So as that’s consistent, you’re going to have consistent deals, consistent income coming in. And like we said, we profit 25, 000 per deal. And you just need 10 deals a year to make 20, 250. That’s less than one deal a month to make 250, 000. A lot of people are making a lot more than that, but it depends what your financial goals are and your resources and time availability is as well.
But this business is really lucrative for a reason. And we just simplified it into a seven step equation. Am I, are we missing anything there?
Ron: I don’t think so. It’s there’s obviously intricacies with each of these steps for sure. And you’re going to learn a lot along the way, but this is the basis of the building.
Dan: This is the blueprint. Yeah. Perfect. Well, that’s all we have guys. If you don’t mind, please like and subscribe our YouTube channel below. Other than that, guys, thank you for joining. We’ll see you next episode.
Ron: Thanks guys.
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