The IRS could tell me the EIN number a week later by telephone, but I needed the official letter for the bank account application (which was waiting for it).

This is why we have telephones, scanners, fax machines, and email!

Warren also bilked people when he ran the now-bankrupt "Psychic Hotline," a telephone service that charged callers to speak to fortune tellers.

If you lease the land telephone pole billboards are fine. 

Here are just some examples:Loan collection reportsAll telephone collections must be recorded and kept on file, a monitoring program and training must be in place.Toll free numbers, payment books or EFT arrangements made, notices of changes of payment or address at 90 days, active accounts with contact information are confidential requiring security measures, accounting software must be verified compliant, there must be a loan resolution program in place dictating how and when complaints are transmitted, issues addressed within the required time frame, offers of any modification noted such as allowing a few more days to pay without penalty is a modification, must be recorded and portfolio servicing records must be on file in good form for examination, I could go on.....There is the law and there are matters absent of requirements or exemptions and there is then reality, you're right, third party servicers are not required for small lenders, compliance with servicing requirements are.

I also do telephone prospecting.

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Obviously who ever says you can't get a lease purchase over the phone is very inexperienced on the telephone. 

Otherwise, most of what is needed can be done via email and telephone, so reach out of market if needed to get the price you want.

Speaking for myself, I rarely answer the telephone when I am on a job, thus, if you call at 9:30 AM I will not respond until I am free.