Driving for dollars then door knocking ?

[Timothy Crawford]

Hi to everyone and thanks for any feedback in Advance. I recently decided to start driving for dollars (last week ) while running my life insurance appointments. I found a few houses that were vacant so I pulled up the owners info and knocked the door of the owners primary address. When I spook with the owner she raved about how impressed she was that I took the time out to come find her and speak with here face to face about her property, then she pulls out a stack of mail from investors inquiring about her property. She then goes on to tell me she has 6 properties she wants to get rid of. Needless to say we are meeting tomorrow to sign a contract on 1 that I made a offer on (fingers crossed). My question though ,is how many people have seen a significant amount of success by just looking up the owners info and meeting them face to face about their property instead of sending mail ? I know mailers will cut time in half because the door to door method is a lot of running around, but do you think you can get as many deals doing it this way ?