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Both end in a conversation with an owner. One of them involves your car.
What driving for dollars gives you
You find properties by looking at them. Distress that no dataset records — a roof, an overgrown yard, boarded windows, two years of mail — is visible from the street and to nobody else who has not driven that street.
The category pairs that with skip tracing and outreach tooling so a property you photograph becomes a contact you can work.
The lists this produces are genuinely differentiated, which is the whole appeal: almost nobody else is calling those owners.
Its pricing and feature set are its own to publish.
What it costs
Hours in a car, then hours on a phone. The properties are better than a bought list and the volume is much lower, so the model lives or dies on how much of your week you can give it.
It also puts the outreach on you — the tracing, the calls, the messages, and the silence from most of them.
Buying a lead removes both halves. What arrives is somebody who has already responded, sold once, with what he/she said attached.
Which fits your week
If you have time and little capital, drive. It is the classic way to start for exactly that reason, and the market knowledge is worth as much as the deals.
If you have capital and no spare hours, buying conversations is the direct substitution, and it is a substitution of money for time rather than a different strategy.
A lot of investors drive their own area and buy leads for the markets they cannot reach on a Tuesday evening.
Questions people ask
Are bought leads better than properties I find myself?
Not better, different. A property you spotted has less competition; a bought lead has already replied. The first is a better property, the second is a faster conversation.
Do I still need skip tracing?
Not for our leads — full contact details come with the lead once it is yours.
Can I do both?
Yes, and the combination is common: drive the neighbourhoods you know, buy leads in the ones you do not.
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