(yellow, blue, handwritten, scribbles).19.Slap a unique tracking phone number on each mailer design.20.Spend another fortune sending mailers, again.21.Get yelled at, again.22.Remove people from the list that demand it, again.23.Receive a bunch of returned mailers, again.24.Spend another fortune to skip trace and resend the new mailers… again.25.Subscribe to your favorite real estate investing forum and ask people what you are doing wrong.26.Try hard to make sense of their response: “If all this is not working for you, it means you didn’t do it enough, do more (of what obviously is not working), and stay consistent”.27.Get depressed.28.Get yourself together.29.Do it all over again.30.

I still have to work at this daily to get out of the blue collar mindset of trading time for money.

I know from experience that contractors disappear, tenants stop paying rent (good luck if you're in a blue state..sold everything in NY for this reason), interest rates go up as we've witnessed over the last couple of years, anomalies happen (Covid literally effed a lot of us investors).Not to be discouraging, but i've been through all of these and if you can get through it, great.

That is just normal not saturated in those cities, lot of blue collar. 

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I won't bash them too hard, because once in a blue moon there are actual deals you can come across, but having a second filter/eyes on the deal can really be great insurance against buying a dud.

Or you could refi and only be into the property for 25k and have 150k in equity with a lighter cash flow. 

Weekends brings in people visiting family or going to a foot ball game and week nights is mostly contractors or other blue collar groups needing a place for the week that is nice but cheaper than a hotel.

Our max was 320k, which knocks out a lot of Blue Ridge.

They're more blue collar and are not always the most reliable if they're too tied up in other projects.