I found this thread out there a little.I don't see people making more money in less time lazy through systems and processes.While those processes shouldn't define a person they are important to have in place and constantly be refining.Re-inventing the wheel every time is asking for lost time and additional work that is not needed.To the original poster it is YOUR MONEY.Take what everyone says with a grain of salt.Then determine what you would feel comfortable doing because if it goes South you wouldn't be losing their money.I look at this the same way conducting business as a commercial broker.If someone calls me up and is looking for a one in a thousand property I am sure it can be done.How long and how much time to get there is debatable.I don't personally base business models on long shots.I want to know when I put time in that my chances of getting a return are very high.It seems like this flipping business is getting tougher and tougher.I have been having many investors from across the country telling me that flips are getting to be more competitive and dried up.The volume is going down and they are tired of dealing with home buyers.They are looking for commercial properties to move to a different niche of investing.I can tell you I wouldn't want to hold SFR house rentals as an exit if it doesn't sell.I do find it interesting to hear what different residential flippers are doing on deals though.

I get plenty of calls from my out-of-state marketing but most of those calls are tire kickers and not very motivated.

at my other place, it's lasted 9 years now & has still held up, hot tires & all.

If they tired to tell me on the 25th, I would refuse and tell them they owe me another month's rent.

More specific yellow letter that hopefully will bring in more motivated sellers, instead of tire kickers.For anyone else who was in a similar situation in the past and figured out how to get better results, what did you do?

Look for a good real estate investing roadmap, or you might be kicking tires for a long time!

MLS, FSBO, driving my "farm" looking for "not so hot looking" yards and exteriors, word of mouth, tired landlords etc, etc.The two worst sources were the first 2.

I am interested in getting started in REI and I am tired of floating with the idea.

I guess I hadn't expected anyone to hang onto each individual word -- I'll give you this one, because I knew as I typed it that it was not the accurate word choice, but it was late and i was tired.

Re your comment about showing on weekends, again, markets vary, but you really get a lot of "tire kickers" and nosy neighbors on the weekend.