Has anyone gotten any good business from craigs list?

If so was it a good amount of business?

Thanks

No real estate but I have had great success selling my junk on there and it's FREE can't beat that.

i have a showing on one of my 500k listings on Saturday at 4pm that is from craigslist advertising

I've been starting to advertise my own listings and selected listings other agents in my office has(with their permission). I've been getting a decent amount of inquiries on this one property. I had an inquiry a $500k property Wednesday night that I took out today to see that particular property and will be getting together next week for some more.

post your listings or your friends listings on there daily. you will get calls. just like any leads, it is on you to sort them and convert the serious leads from the tirekickers.

It must be regional. I put all my listings on Craigs and have gotten only one call, and thought my 399,000 bungalow might be waterfront. Not likely.

Works great for me ... on my virtual tours that I use I am able to see where the people come from and there was many a months where the Craigslist links were higher than my public MLS clicks!!!

Can't hurt and it's free. When posting with craigslist use the postlets (also free) to make the listing ... it looks a lot better! See one at http://rochester.craigslist.org/rfs/460861862.html compared to the one line ads with four pictures.

where do you get that postlets?

postlets.com. Also check out vflyers.com. I like the listing widget at vflyers. Postlet's flyer are classier looking but don't track source of views, vflyer's does (except for craiglists, but I'm pretty sure "other" for source is craigslist).

I also get buyer calls from craigslist the most, including my open houses, I always ask, good source of leads.

My Active Rain blog has been netting the most online flyer views lately, I post my listings using vflyers there.

Works best for lower end stuff and fixer-uppers. Entry level condos/coops or lower priced homes.

Also for properties for weekenders in my area being about 75 minutes to Manhatten.

Those of you posting listings to craigslist, do you post each listing daily?

Also using the free version on vflyers, do you get more than one flyer at a time? I tried this and 2 seperate flyers were linking to the same flyer.

I use craigslist for every listing. I've converted quite a few leads to clients from it, and have double ended a few listings as well. Prices have ranged from 250K to 800K. Just like any other leads, make sure you pre-qualify them, and make sure they're pre-approved with a lender before waisting your time.

I've also recently got a 24hr 800 capture line and now use that number in the craigslist ad so I can track where the activity is coming from (flyers, signs, ads, ect). This works well because you can get contacts that might not necessarily want to preview your listing.

I don't post everyday -- once a week is about all I like to do.

The best thing that noone has mentioned is that this consumer is very computer literate. There's a limited amount of the population that knows about it and those are people that are always on the computer. It's getting more well known every month though. I prefer to work with the person that has viewed properties on a ton of different sites and knows the pricing ... they often are less likely to put in unrealistic offers as they know what the market is selling from due to their level of knowledge.

I post a set of listing every 3-4 days and 1 set a day Each set is made up of similiar listings(new/newer construction, waterfront, starter properties, different properties, homes with easy access to highway, regular 4 bedroom 2.5 bath colonials and regular houses). Each set has about 5 properties.