Should I stop pursuing these leads?

[Steve Adler]

Hey BP Community quick question. I have a person in my community who is known as a “slum lord”. His company and apartment complexes have TERRIBLE reviews. He has over a couple hundred properties in my town, and a lot of them need work. On my prospect list I have about 25 properties BEFORE I stopped writing the rest down because I just said I gotta figure out a way to get in contact with him. 

I’ve called his leasing office almost twice a week and left notes for the past 4 months, and I’ve even went to his house (he was not home but his wife said that she would tell him I stopped by). I normally would of stopped trying to reach out but his office keeps saying he is looking to sell? Could he just tell them that as a generic response? He has a ton of properties that are boarded up/vacant and some complexes that are getting run down. 

In a worst case scenario I’d love to even take him to lunch and learn how he accumulated all of the properties. Should I just stop trying to get in touch with him?