While anything is possible, doesn't seem logical to take the risk and hope the first may come down after sliding into second.  

and that the house is now owned by FMNA.To me that means, the buyers didn't get paid....but had to pay the lawyers...and subsequently lost the house to foreclosure, ruining their credit AND the prior owners (who may or may not have known about the spiders at time of sale).Sometimes it's easier to just suck it up and take care of business yourself.  

My husband and I decided we don't want to be involved with a HOA (unless we can buy the entire thing and subsequently get rid of the HOA). 

It was a townhouse which had it's garage burn down and was subsequently foreclosed on.

And yes, that becomes tricky in a sliding or crashing market.

I was tempted to tell her I didn't have her number until she called, but just let it slide :)RE: original question.

Given the statistics of landing just one deal, I'd rather have many people to market to in order to up my chances of landing a deal.As far as the subsequent months, keep mailing until you land the deal or they ask you to stop mailing them. 

Our retail is really picking up as well, once Walmart came to town the main road in town started getting more traffic and subsequently a lot of shopping plazas were revamped.

Some of the less obvious items that I've been nitpicked on:- paint underneath the sink and in the utility closet- any tree branches / weeds touching the building perimeter- clean window frames (the channel where it slides had to be spotless)- common area / hallway must also meet code regardless of how many section 8 tenants you have

Your tenants will put more harmful things down the garbage disposal and sink than the higher end tenants and will leave you more of a clean up job on turnover.OTOH your lower end tenants will let you slide on coming right over to fix a broken disposal or running toilet.