I too require that my tenant prospects receive prompt return calls and asap showings.

---Getting appointments - One of my best prospecting lines for well-heeled business owners: "Our policy is not to use more than 25% of available money for retirement in our 10% Non-Traditional Steady Interest Accounts.

MikeOH - It sounds like we have some of the same prospects for tennants!

You can locate prospects among your family and friends, your local REIA meetings, or even by advertising on Craig’s List.•Private Money lenders – You can also locate private individuals that have cash they would like to invest in real estate.

The commissions for rentals are not very high enough for busy agents, so they could refer prospective tenants for you to qualify and show properties to.

Hi Danwhy don't give it a try, you don't need to be a tech guy, the internet is probably the most affordable media.i know one realtor that build up his business in Europe using only the power of the internet.Here is the thing that a professional website can do for youit can work everyday for you and collect email from prospect, the leads you collect can be Seller and Buyers.Now, getting back to this succesful friend(i can not reveal the name of his business or his website), when he had a new property to sell, he just send an email, and he had some 20 solid investor coming visiting and he close more sales in his area that any other company.again, if you can send an email you can use the internet to build up your businessand most buyers make thorough research on the internet in the first placei won't recommend Ebay, for the branding of your company it is not really that good.best of luck Halille

On one property, a prospective tenant wants to purchase it.

How many prospective buyers / tenants are you able to attract?

If I'm under the gun rehabbing a property, I spend pretty much dawn till dusk on site (and sometimes late into the early morning) as I've found that people who see a for rent sign in the yard and work being done to the property are my hottest tenant prospects.

I use either the mail merge program on Word or a program called Real Prospect.