I am still a couple of month away from my stock exercise...once I have the money in hand, would you mind me ring you up and ask the other 9999 questions on this subject?

Making mailings is one way to find good deals, but the return on a mailing is very low and expensive.Doing a mailing campaign is a passive way to market for deals - If you want to accelerate your potential to make money in this business, I would suggest using active marketing ---Farming - looking for vacant, ugly houses - tracking down the sellers - make an offerSit in your local rent and housing court - no body wants to be there - great place to find burned out landlords who will be glad to discount their property to youExpired listing - these are sellers who have a property that did not sell - you can make their dream of selling a realality and profit at the same timeRather than licking stamps, designing silly yellow letters or post cards, stuffing envelops, buying postage, running to the post office or sitting home waiting for the phone to ring -- you'd be lot more successful by entering your market and doing peo-active marketing for the gold nuggets you are seeking.

My girlfriend (who i am saving for a ring as well) isn't sure she wants to have renters on site.I have long tossed around the idea of stopping my contributions to my 401k/roth to save to have cash for a deal.

Jon,If you want to get some details that make sense in the specific market ring a few architects who work on similar properties.

My experience was that listing it with the Housing Authority was enough to get the phone ringing.

To make the phone ring.

Finally started marketing and now my phone is ringing and I'm trying to figure out what to do next!!!!!

$125,000Call 123-4567"This will get your phone ringing!

I need to know the lead name when CallRail rings my cell phone. 

I prefer the west side, but I do manage properties in most of the east side inner ring suburbs (Maple Heights, Garfield Heights, Cleveland Heights, Shaker Heights, South Euclid, Euclid).