Pre-Foreclosure Script for the First Call
The first call to a pre-foreclosure homeowner has to say how you found them, offer the way off the phone, and ask one open question about their plan.
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The first call to a pre-foreclosure homeowner has to say how you found them, offer the way off the phone, and ask one open question about their plan.
A pre-foreclosure lead is a public record that a homeowner is more than four months behind.
A landlord who says they would sell but the tenant is still there is describing one of three different sales, and the buyer pool, the price basis and the calendar change with each.
The neighbor has no seller signal, so the questions that work are about the street, not their plans.
A FSBO that has been on the market six weeks is a seller whose plan did not work, being called by nobody.
Every other prospecting appointment starts with the homeowner reaching out.
Teams play the appointment-setting call in the Friday meeting and learn nothing from it.
A shared list without an ownership rule produces the one thing a team cannot afford: two agents from the same brokerage calling the same homeowner in the same week.
An old database is a list of people who once told you something.
Twenty seconds in, the homeowner says send me something.
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