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Five-Figure Finder-Fees Locating Unclaimed Funds Still making easy profits in today s market with short sales or other "has been" real estate techniques? Doubt it. Long gone are the days when short-term flipping profits were virtually guaranteed by the swiftly rising market. Or the short sale boom days that guaranteed more buinesss then you could ever handle after that. Real estate investors who survived the real estate bubble, or have just started recently, are getting ahead by actually creating value, rehabbing again, bargain shopping again, and using tax sale strategies to find niche properties. These can all be good strategies though paydays are often uncertain. And some of these methods require a significant amount of cash to pursue. What if you could get involved today in a real estate deal where you knew exactly how much you d profit as soon as the paperwork was signed off and the payday came in days or weeks, not months or years? It s time we let the cat out of the bag. We re about to reveal how we ve been making easy, predictable profits for years without upfront investment - finding and collecting unclaimed tax sale overages. Unclaimed Funds You ve probably heard about unclaimed funds. Closed bank accounts, uncashed checks, and abandoned stock portfolios, to name a few, are routinely handed over to your state s unclaimed funds authority each year. You may have seen billboards or newspaper advertisements inviting you to search for unclaimed funds that belong to you. It s quite noble that these state authorities are making attempts to reunite the money they have on hand with the rightful owners.
How do these funds relate to real estate? They don t! We re not even going to be touching them. Instead, we ll pursue a whole different class of underground funds that haven t even been turned over to the state yet. And in many cases, these claims are 10-200 times the amount of a typical claim advertised by the state. Once we find the funds that fall into this special class, we re going to reunite them with their owner, and collect a 40% fee for doing so. Are these underground unclaimed funds still being generated today? You bet. We actually have dozens of them that our members have shared with us recently. Here's one of ours from a while back - a mid-sized one. The unclaimed funds arena was always a reliable cash cow while we did our real estate deals but now we spend more and more time in it rather than owning properties. Read on to find how you can get involved too.
Underground Unclaimed Funds We re not going to be able to create 5-figure paychecks very easily with the unclaimed funds that are on hand with our state. Why? Most of the individual amounts on hand with the state are tiny under $1000. And many states have tight caps on the amount you can charge to collect these funds on behalf of an owner; as low as 5%. Plus, states are launching huge advertising campaigns to make the public aware of the unclaimed funds they may be entitled to. Here s where our real estate background pays off. It turns out that certain real-estate related events can result in a large amount of cash being generated for the benefit of the former owner of a property. This cash is often referred to as an overage. These overage events can include, but are not limited to: Delinquent Tax Auctions Mortgage Foreclosures Condemnations Eminent Domain Actions Suits for Partition Probates / Estates And many more However, funds generated from tax sales are by far the easiest and most plentiful so we re going to focus on those. If you run into the other overage funds types in your travels, you can usually work those too!
These overages are not sent to the state, at least not right away. They often linger in various agencies at your county for years, ready to be collected. Unlike most state unclaimed funds agencies, counties often do not publicize the availability of these funds to the public. In many cases, if the funds go uncollected, the agency holding the funds permanently acquires them for their own use and does not have to turn them over to the state. It s called escheating, and many agencies appear to be perfectly happy to let that happen. Let s put a stop to that, and get those funds into the hands of their rightful owner.
Finding Underground Unclaimed Funds Once we ve identified all the events that can trigger an underground unclaimed funds account, it s time to put the law on our side. Every state in the country has a public records access law or freedom of information act which allows almost all public records to be viewed and copied. After we determine which agencies may be holding large amounts of unclaimed funds, we can do a public records request to discover exactly what funds are currently on hand with the agency. This isn t as simple as strolling into the agency and saying Hey do y all have a list of unclaimed funds that I can grab real quick? By doing our homework, we know exactly which agencies receive unclaimed funds from time to time, and where the records that account for these funds are kept. Then, we know exactly what to ask for with our public records access request. Do most of these agencies keep an unclaimed funds list lying around? No. Can we easily make our own unclaimed funds list by requesting certain records that are public information, or have the agency generate a list for us? Yes.
Contacting the Owner of Found Money Now it s time for the fun part: informing an owner of found money that they re a couple pieces of paperwork away from receiving thousands of dollars they didn t even know they had. We ll have lists of ready-to-collect unclaimed money from the appropriate agencies. And these lists will also contain the name of the person entitled to the money and their last-known address, at minimum. Why haven t these folks collected the funds due them? They don t know about them! We re simply going to contact the potential recipients of this money by mail and phone, and offer to throw thousands of dollars in their lap just for signing our paperwork. Often in a matter of days or weeks. Of course, while we re going to do a valuable service by connecting the owner of unclaimed funds with their money, we re not going to do it for free. We ll be happy to provide our services for a 40%-50% cut of the funds, and the owner of the funds will be happy to receive the balance.
Collecting the Funds Once we ve gotten a missing recipient of unclaimed funds to sign our paperwork, we re in the home stretch. Many times we ll just provide the paperwork to the agency holding the funds, and a check will be in the mail to us in a matter of days. On a couple of occasions a clerk has asked us to wait while a check was cut right then and there. Other times, we ll get an attorney involved to collect the funds. In either case, a check will likely be on its way to us in a short period of time. That s it! Cash the check, and give the client his 60% share of the funds. The Training Program We've gotten dozens of successful students Hooked on Overages with our online training program. More seats in the program will be opening up soon. In it, you ll discover: Which states have tax sale and which states are the best to work How to identify the agencies that hold these overages The proper way to request the lists of overages these agencies have on hand right now. How to locate the recipients of these funds What to say to say on the phone when you locate a potential recipient of unclaimed cash
How to complete the paperwork necessary to make the claim We ll leave it up to you to cash the check! When new seats open in the training, we ll have a free 1-hour webinar that will cover the found money business from start to finish and at that time we ll accept a limited number of new students. Keep your eye out for the next webinar, coming soon! -Bob Diamond