I make sure to type that portion out in BOLD lettering.

These buyers didn't need to be convinced that we did good work (they or their agent saw our first house and liked it) and knew that the house likely would NOT be around forever (they lost out on the first one) -- so they made quick and competitive offers....J Scott - I believe there is a typo in the quoted snippet, with my correction inserted in uppercase bold; correct me if I'm wrong :)

Chad - I did bring it up briefly in the podcast, but here is the post here on BP where I talked about statistics and increasing your deals by mailing multiple times.http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2012/12/04/how-to-use-direct-mail-successfully-in-your-business/Sharon

Seems the question that comes up is "If I can do this with a 35K house, why not a 500K building" that quickly grows to a million dollar deal and one guy was bold enough to suggest a 4 million dollar property as I recall.All to be done by investors that don't have a pot to spit in!

Here are some startling statistics.

Without running the numbers, I can tell you this: It will take a lot longer starting from now and 25K than starting from 5 years from now and 25K plus 200K from that extra income of 100K over your current 60K plus whatever else you are saving.I haven't seen statistics, but the overwhelming trend that I personally see is that *most* people making good money in real estate are people with high earning day jobs.

Statistically they are, as most liability claims are under these amounts.

It lists statewide sales, average sales price, average days on markets and other statistics.

Statistically they are, as most liability claims are under these amounts.

Insurance companies have high statistics??