These methods include: Detailed Engineering Cost ApproachDetailed Engineering Cost Estimate ApproachSurvey or Letter ApproachResidual Estimation ApproachSampling or Modeling ApproachExperience or “Rule of Thumb” ApproachIt’s important to understand the differences between the approaches including which one best fits your property and the reliability of each approach.DETAILED ENGINEERING COST APPROACHThis approach compiles the costs from construction and accounting reports to build a report.

Letters, post cards even calls are useless to this owner class. 

Paul and Special Financing Company both  promised they would take care of this by December 27th and then just today in the mail I got two letters saying that they had transferred my loan to another company...That is the most insane thing I have ever encountered in all the years of dealing with shady businesses on the internet-!!!!

Ask for their advice and maybe even something a little corny, like whether they’d be willing to write a letter of recommendation for your lender when the time comes.

I suggest a neutral tone when you send your letter and hope for the best.

We taped an invitation letter to his door to give to SCI's Kevin Bupp.

Quote from @Bob Beach: We're selling a few houses in Memphis, and we have interest (letter of intent), on one house that's requesting, "Seller Finance".

To preface, I have my real estate license and generally pull a list of presumed high equity(purchased more than 10 years ago), absentee owners in my target market and send out about 3000-4000 postcards or letters every 6 weeks or so. 

I plan on mailing the letter certified and I wanted to know do landlords also call the tenant as a courtesy to let them know about the letter. 

If you are using a third-party site to conduct the background checks, sometimes they have the option to send a person, a denial letter, and due to the fair credit act it may be required to send them a notice, informing them that you checked their credit and background so that they have a receipt that it was completed.