The weather can play havoc on your property in cold winter areas.You need to make sure the property has been winterized by having the heating,water heater,pipes,rain gutters,and the like are serviced for winter and fully inspected.Make sure you have a snow removal plan in place like the tenant has to do it or you pay someone to do it on a regular basis.

I am ready to start cold calling, as well as handwriting and mailing lawyers as I gather potential seller info, but I don't know how to start the conversation. 

Chances are she will remain too ill to move and if she does improve enough to consider it, the cold will likely deter her.

Haven't closed a deal yet but I'm working the streets, knocking on doors, and cold calling absentee owners.

I'm a little skeptical about cold calling, does anyone have any suggestions for this?

Other than making cold calls every so often, my marketing is automated for the most part.

@Jose FloresI made my first cold call today.

Now a seller's agent spend lots of money and time working their spheres of influence, doing business by referral, sending out marketing materials to possible sellers, organizing events to find sellers, cold calling, and many other things to find homes to list.

I was hired into an investors firm a start-up basically and I am finding places cold calling.

Also buyers need to be serious about purchasing a house when wading out into the cold weather to look at a property.