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DRAFTA working draft — not yet checked against reality by a person. Read it, but confirm before you rely on it.

Daily Door-Knock Route

Route — the daily door-knock route flow (start = live GPS, end pin, must-hit first, re-route after every knock). · tap to zoom & pan
Opens and runs the daily door-knock route in the right order and captures a disposition at every stop
WhoJason
Whenevery field day before leaving the house or when continuing into a new city batch
Time~15 min
THE ONE RULEmust-hit leads with the soonest auction date get knocked first regardless of geographic convenience

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NEVERleave a stop undispositioned or skip a dead lead without logging a reason
ALWAYSstart the route from live GPS, not a stored home address
ALWAYSknock the neighbors when a property is flagged vacant
Why this matters

Get boots on the ground at the right doors, in the right order, every single day. Speed to lead beats everything else in this business — Franke's own $35K assignment came from a same-day door knock on a fresh NOD. This SOP is how a rep opens the route, knocks in an optimized order, and captures every disposition so tomorrow's route learns from today.

When to use this

Every field day, before leaving the house or the last stop of the previous route. Also re-run mid-route any time you finish a city batch and want to continue into the next one (the "continuation case").

Before you start
  • Leads already scraped, cleaned, and bucketed gold/silver/bronze (see sop-kod-lead-intake-scrape and sop-kod-lead-enrichment).
  • Phone with live GPS and either the KOD field app or the route board open.
  • 20-30 pre-filled packets in the car (sub2 + cash + novation packets, business cards, testimonial door hangers, sticky notes) — the standard field-prep load.
  • Non-threat mindset: you are here to serve, not to sell.
How to know it worked
  • Every stop on today's route shows a disposition by end of day — no blank stops.
  • Must-hit (soonest-auction) leads were knocked first, not skipped for convenience.
  • Vacant properties were flagged and neighbors were knocked.
  • The route never asked you to backtrack to an already-knocked address.
  • Doors math is roughly on pace: Franke's floor is 15 doors/day (20-25/day for an experienced rep), with an expected ~20-30 conversations per 100 doors worked over time.
If it goes sideways
  • Route won't build / stuck on start. GPS is almost certainly off or denied — the route requires live GPS as the start, it will not fall back to a stored address. Enable location services and reopen the route.
  • A lead keeps showing up even though it seems handled. Check whether it's a subto play — thin or negative-equity leads with a low interest rate (≤4%) are intentionally kept and routed because the low assumable rate makes them worth a door, even though the equity looks bad. If it's genuinely a dead lead, skip it with a reason instead of just knocking past it, so it drops off future routes with a documented reason.
  • You knocked a lead that turned out to already be resolved (BK, tax matter, owner already handling it). Log the correct disposition (e.g. skip with reason: already handled / bankruptcy / owner postponing) right away — this is what pulls it off tomorrow's route and prevents wasted future knocks.
  • Notes or dispositions didn't save after a knock. Cell service at the door can be spotty; if you're not sure a note saved, re-enter it once you have signal rather than assuming it went through.
  • You're not hitting your doors-per-week target. Standard is roughly 35+ doors/week solo, higher on a team; if you're consistently under, re-check your city batch size and whether you're spending too long per stop.

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