@EveryoneNew spring, fresh smells, clean air and a new batch of weird for this thread:Best email:Hi, your 2bed is working, yes//I'd like to move in with my girlfriend and our kittie, Neow!

Wish they had a CRM, I probably wouldn't use much else other than propstream and batch leads for skip tracing.

I'm on Batch currently which is fine but everything is an "add-on" cost-wise. 

Mailing to your prospects more than once per MONTH leads to diminishing returns.You can batch out your mail such that you are mailing something every week (that is a GOOD idea as it levels out your work flow), but do not cycle all the way through your list more often than once per month.

I felt a huge sigh of relief and excitement when I dropped off our first batch of mailers today.....

Depending on your area, here is what I would do: research the areas you want to market in (im assuming for wholesaling), find the area that may have the most motivated sellers with homes that are most likely needing rehab in some way to add value (1985 homes and older), contact a reliable list broker, buy a list of 60,90,120 day LATE mortgage payment (this is different then default, NOD, NTS) this typically is .16 to .22 cents a lead, buy 1000, to save money get lined white ruler paper, hand write a note that you want to say to the mailers on a piece of copy paper using the lines of the ruler paper as a guide, then meticulously photo copy that note on the printer using the ruler paper as the printer paper so that you have 1000 nice lined paper print outs of your note that look like real hand written notes (do not hurry on this part, make sure it looks good, since this is your one chance at the mailing with that limited budget), then buy 1000 yellow greeting card sized envelopes from envelopes.com (canary yellow 4x5 ish), buy 1000 real stamps, HAND WRITE the first name of the late payment person on the top line of the letters, HAND write the mailing address on the envelopes, put a real stamp on it, then mail them off in batches of 250 a week if you are by your self or 500 if you have a partner (calls will come in and overload you).Get a way to track every call, return EVERY call even if its missed, go on all appointments, learn a ton, make something happen.This worked for me to get started once I had a budget. 

Originally posted by @Brandon Seger:Hey everyone this is my first post on BiggerPockets and I’m ready to drop my first batch of mail!

I bought a list from list source once, batch skip traced it, and by the end of both of those processes, I ended up with 50% of the phone numbers actually putting me through to someone.

If you're mailing small, throwing a batch of hand written ones to test the response rate will let you know whether the extra time investment is worth it for you.

The first batch of bandit signs go up this weekend coupled with more drive bys.