In addition, Black Diamond (url in my signature) is having a meeting on 1/27 on "Packaging your Commercial deal for the best rates, terms and sources of funds". 

I tried it because I got a few of them in a surplus-sale packaged deal.

Every person that knows you and every person you interact with and encounter should know that you are a RE investor and that you are always looking for deals.

@Wilson Churchill   my experience in lending in Wayne county 10 years ago was that the county recorder was one of the slowest recording entities I had encountered in my entire career..

Many states sell their tax certificates and tax sale properties to blocks of investors and these investors never get to see the properties that are packaged by the state city or municipalities.

If I ever decide to sell, I’ll package this condo with some others for another investor so it can be easily financed, and as an updated unit it should bring $25k or greater, a pretty good ROI on the initial $10k investment.

Now we have to install stairs and skirting, and the skirting cost is double what we encountered on a previous fix. 

Realquest Express Silver package is $49/month.

If he says a simple rehab is gonna be 40K, it's 40K even if there are unforeseen issues he encounters...assuming they are not 10K over budget :-)

As far as content or packaging of your letter, anything you can do to stand apart from other direct mail people will help your response.