We get about a 21% response rate...There is a difference between a seller who wants to sell and a seller who needs to sell.Most of the callers will be a waste of time, however you will hit a home run every now and then.

The listed owner (mother of the caller) is deceased and the most recent activity from the county is a "welfare lien" from 3 years ago.

If you wanted to do short term deals you can spend a bit of money on building lists of buyers and creating a stream of callers with places to sell.

I'm not very handy, but I'm smart, in sales (experience cold caller) hard working and ready to learn.

This essentially what the OP wants, a way to be able to see If these callers even have the ability to qualify to rent.Even so one must analyse their goals and move forward in such a manner.

They need to bill the caller, then it is the caller's responsibility to bill whoever the responsible party is to them (tenant to landlord in some cases).

It's been advertised as a No Pets property.During a phone screening, caller mentioned a family member who doesn't currently live with her, will be moving in with her because he has a disability.

At $1 / letter and your VA costs for answering 100 phone calls might be $2/caller for another $200, so total cost is $1200 for 2-10 deals.

If they leave a message, then an email is sent to me with that recording.What I don't know how to do:(1) when I return the call, I want them to see the 2nd phone number as the one that shows up on their caller id? 

Well, sure enough, I got a prank call.