Pick nasty or strategic and flip.  

I think they were picked up at the pound.

The tenant doesn't pick up my call nor reply to my message .

They actually had a case where the wind picked up a bouncy house full of girl scouts and dumped them out - no one was killed, but several were hurt, and traumatized. 

Picked up my first few properties in April.

Columbus, Ohio is a great market to pick up rental properties because of the lower home prices and demand from renters.

I think many investors are going around that rule in Baltimore City, so I assume they are doing it in other counties.Not trying to pick on you as you are 110% correct and understand you are just reporting the facts on the ground, just I think the logic about this, about “off market” deals is kind of off, like there are plenty of ways to make money skirting the rules, taking advantage of old people etc, and there are more profitable ways than real estate to do that, at that point your not really a real estate investor, your just someone making money not playing by the rules of your competition and taking advantage of people, which to me shouldn’t be considered “a real estate strategy”

The goal is to pick up a property to hold and manage.

You start buying now, pick one up every year or two, you will be sitting very pretty at a very early ago.

I wouldn't exactly call them wrong numbers, but it does require a little more detective work to track down your target if the only number you can get to pick up is a work number or a family member.