you could get a google voice number with any area code and have it forwarded to your phone

"May the odds be in your favor"  *Effie Trinket's Voice*

For them it’s day to day living and for me it sounds like construction is going on plus normal speaking voice is straight up yelling. 

With every market I research and deal I analyze, this little voice in my head grows louder. 

But don't talk to their agent or even let them hear your voice.

I’ve invested in Buildium, got my leases and processes down, a file sharing system, google voice number, etc.  

Remember she showed the Proof of Funds letter from the bank account and the deposit is refundable anyway (even if the listing broker wants to see more money, she can probably put $10k but they will only usually ask for the increased deposit once the due diligence contingency period expires) f) Now that your friend has the property under contract she will prepare a package to present to national tenants just like she was trained by the fund manager to offer the location with attractive lease terms etc and she will send it to the fund manager for review and update g) your friend will then start contacting national tenants and will use a specific script when leaving voice mail messages then will follow up by email (as a fund manager I created a list of over 4000 national tenants with very specific information regarding who to contact, the size of space they like, who they like to be next to etc) h) Your friend just needs one tenant to communicate back, expressing interest to expand in that location.

I was recently "retired" by my company after an acquisition and decided to go full time as a technology consultant, helping businesses with their cloud/voice/data/telecom needs -- along with my desire to be a real estate investor. 

The ones that need to be throat punched are the ones that call in a limited English voice that is hard to understand and who are 'interested in buying my property' but no idea what property. 

"Hate scripts:1) Not your voice and people know you're reading it2) Get off script and you're lost3) You gotta get thru the script and you won't listen as wellMuch better, if you set goals, ask questions and let people respond (my problem since I'm 5 jumps ahead on the conversation):1) Are you thinking of buying/selling in the near future?