This requires research to determine property characteristics, public records info, property taxes, bankruptcy court info, etc. and inputting all of the info into a database.

Being considered a deal is dependent upon EACH transaction and the characteristics of said transaction.

And what are the key characteristics of your list?

I have and from a property characteristics view point their data isn't as worthy in that I can't filter as far as I need to.

Direct mail is great because we can run filters based upon property characteristics like equity, years owned, age of seller etc.. then we can use sub lists like code violations, probate, unlawful detainer status to bring in hopes of motivation. 

When he gets to a point where he has more money than time to invest, he does the opposite and makes his mailers more stringent in their qualifying characteristics.

The list characteristics are as follows30-100% equity5 year ownership or greaterSFR, occasionally duplexes, tris and quads.

Using an elimination filter, I removed locations with characteristics that made them unlikely to be viable investment locations.

An interesting characteristic is the lack of limitation on the number and nature of its members.

Currently the USPS uses a USA flag for the Standard and a star burst for the First Class.The three characteristic differences from a standard and first class hard stamp is that a First Class doesn't require return address where standard does.