I am thinking of hiring an answering service that would be able to simply bring up my website anytime someone calls and answer the questions on it while talking to the caller.

I had several (16 out of 439)callers but none of them were motivated.

I would say our marketing sets us up for it by the demographics of the majority of our callers.

So these callers were just curious what I would pay them for their house.

I debated about this for years, especially after mailings that produced so many unmotivated callers.

Trying to get one of the email blast houses is like trying to be caller #9, everybody emails them within seconds of receiving the message and whoever is 1st gets to make an offer.

I started out with a pen and paper, but now that I have two cold callers, I had to upgrade to software (pipedrive) to help me stay clean. 

I've bought at a huge discount from disgruntled landlords, REOs, at sheriff sales, at estate auctions, from callers responding to my ad in the paper, from my realtor who hunts great deals for me, etc.

Same with callers.

It's been pretty fun talking to the  callers and discussing what we do and everything.