This is your window to optimize.

Pay attention to the search engine optimization (SEO) on craigslist to attract tenants looking for specific features.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) ranks your website higher if you have the keywords that people are searching on in your URL.What would your prospective seller be searching on to find a company/individual like you?

This is an aspect of my business I really need to optimize.

I could probably quit, but it is just not worth it to me at this time as it is easy money and affords us more margin to save and invest ... this is the optimal trade of for us at this moment, but took a long while to reach that point.Third, I think you may need to reassess your strategy.

For the sake of time optimization and efficiency, I would recommend looking into a call center service (with a script you provide) as a long term solution.

So a marketing play might be hang out at building court and offer your menu of services there.

.#3 Contact Local Contractors for Labor Pricing / Hire a GC to ConsultCall local Subcontractors and get budget pricing for common repairs on your typical rehab project.For example, call a roofer and ask what their average cost per Square of Architectural Asphalt Shingle Roofing would be on a 1,500 sf house, with a 6/12 pitch.Note: Some contractors will be reluctant to share pricing without seeing the property, but tell them you are just looking for a rough budget number you can use on future projects.You can also pay a General Contractor a consulting fee of a couple of hundred dollars (per house) to walkthrough a few properties with you and provide a detailed estimate of prices that you can use as your 'menu for future projects.#4 Compile Your Prices into a Spreadsheet or Estimating SoftwareOnce you start to get a better understanding of Labor and Material costs you will want to store this data into a spreadsheet or software that you can use to help you streamline the estimating process.The Book on Estimating Rehab Costs comes with a spreadsheet that you can use to help you populate your own database of labor pricing and material pricing.

Check out the BP Bookstore in the menu above, there are a bunch of great books in there that will help.

Investor deals make about half of my volume, but that equates only to a small portion of my income.When I started with KW my instinct was to reinvent the wheel, because I did not understand that they have it allready laid out, tested and optimized for me and were willing to spoonfeed the necessary knowledge to me.