Depending on the competition, maybe dropping it a little more would generate a quick sales.If it needs work, and especially if there are move-in ready competitors, it may require and investor.

(Ten years of chaos might not seem so temporary looking forward at it but it will look temporary after its gone)People are walking away from valuable assets because they have lost faith in the ability to prosper or even make a living in some cases.The banks with piles of cash are gobbling up the assets of former competitors while at the same time "writing down" the bad debt.

Regardless, its much easier when there isn't a competitor, but I better get used to it, as other people are marketing to the same sellers. 

I want to tip my hat to New Western-particularly JD Castillo (GM, Denton TX office) and John Jackson (agent-Allen office).NW gets a bad rap sometimes...particularly from their competitors, and occasionally customers who get in over their head.  

There were some threats of lawsuits from one guy because he had a competitor try to buy his share out to gain an edge against us, but we were in the right and kept pushing and everyone backed off. 

The people that you are mailing to are the same people that your competitors are mailing to.

There are a good amount of competitors that ONLY get deals from cold calling and after speaking with some of the people who do the calling for them, they are averaging decent numbers. 

And then scale up to get your desired amount of deals.You can ask a competitor for these numbers, but I doubt they are as sharing as you may hope.

Yes you need to do market analysis and see who your competitors are as the other posts mention.  

The person calling could just as easily be someone maliciously trying to harm a competitor, and they will generally refuse to get in the middle.