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You Didn't Touch Your Buy-Box. Why Did the Deals Stop?

• Martin Maxwell • Season 1 • Episode 169

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You wrote the criteria in June, and they worked. Eight or nine properties a week worth a second look. You passed on every one of them, which is what a screen is for.

Three weeks ago the same saved search started coming back empty. Not one line of the criteria had changed.

In this episode of the 5-Minute PRIME Podcast, host Martin Maxwell walks through the three options on the table and shows why the number that emptied the search is almost certainly not the number the listener has been watching.

Tune in to learn:

  • The two numbers that moved — what the monthly payment actually did between June and September, and why it is smaller than anyone expects
  • The one that moved further — which rate the cap-rate floor is really built on, and why it rose almost twice as far as the mortgage rate did
  • The option most people take — how raising a price ceiling to refill a list lowers the bar without anyone having to admit it
  • What an empty screen is actually telling you, and the three honest responses to it

Have you recalculated your criteria since you wrote them? Do you know which rate your own floor is anchored to?

Subscribe now to stop letting a document quietly agree with you.

Read it — see all three options and decide for yourself: reiprime.com/now-what/buy-box-worked-in-june

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