Today is a NOT a good day to run classified ads for Michigan real estate investors.

Well no long weekend / holiday weekend is.

If you look at today’s Detroit News Real Estate section – it is exactly half the size. All the builders – who are smart – skip town on holidays.

Obvious the next thought that crosses my mind is that having less ads sounds good after all if nobody is running ads and I am the only one then running a ad on weekends then I would definitely get better results.

Turns out that is not the case. I have ran all kinds of ads in the last five years in classified sections – private money, to buy houses, to sell houses, for retail flips, for wholesale flips, for renting, for lease options, for flipping apartment complexes, for flipping duplexes – but results are all the same.

There are NO or very little calls.

Seems like nobody in Michigan reads the classified – at least the classifieds on holidays.

But after wasting couple of thousand dollars on testing – it makes sense.

All I have to do is look how I act on long weekends and you act.

We all go out, watch a game, hang out with family, people come over, we go over to somebody’s, go shopping, clean up the yard, go out of town.

Get the idea.

Lot of better things to do today then read the darn classifieds.

After all they are going to be back next Sunday’s.
So if you want to save some money when you are new and starting out in Michigan real estate – then don’t run ads on long weekends and holidays.

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