If they're not in foreclosure, it shouldn't be too critical.

A web presence may be optional today but is becoming more critical for the future.

That's good advice, but I'd also add that it's critical that you use your own letter.

This might result accepting poor deals or rejecting good ones.So in the end, the accuracy of the 50% number is critical, isn't it?

Until that critical point, I don't see prices stabilizing. just my 2 cents

I think it's possible, but I think a big factor would be getting a fairly quick start and reaching a critical mass of a few million, at which point I think a lot more options would start opening up to make the money grow faster.

If you assume that marketing - of which locating motivated sellers is a critical part - takes 20%-25% of your time, you can easily see how little time that leaves for the other activities you need to be doing on an on-going basis to reach your goals.By having a bird dog or bird dogs doing these things for you it allows you to better utilize the time resources you have at your disposal.

Since affordability is increasingly becoming a critical issue, I want to be able to pass on the savings to homeowners.

This is the process that I was thinking about (Criticisms Very Welcome.

I do not wish to criticize, but I have found the Norris Group's postings (here and elsewhere on the Internet) to be long on theory and short on detail.