Then I mail a very simple handwritten letter and usually get north of a 30% response rate.  

It can be hand written with the terms that both parties are agreeing to.

There's a four a few blocks from my house with a handwritten "For Sale" sign, asking $200k, claiming $3150 per month rent.

They started trading hand written IOUs for food.

Protect yourself.Our loan documentation package includes several handwritten forms that the borrower must complete at various points during escrow to establish the intended use of the funds.

I bought a home from a seller once who I had sent a handwritten letter to 9 years earlier to his mother.

You want to delegate all the mundane tasks to others and focus on doing tasks that only you can do.While you are calculating the costs of all the raw materials, you also have to calculate your salary into the total cost of writing your own handwritten letters.

Do you mind sharing what criteria you look for and a gist of what your hand written letter said? 

I mail a brief, hand written letter where I introduce myself.

Send out letters in handwritten envelops about your intention to purchase3.