If they found you on a search engine via SEO or PPC' or they're visiting your site from a link from your follow up email it really won't matter and the .co will work perfectly and you won't have the ugly hyphen.

Guys,SEO , well at least the end goal of SEO is to be ranking high.

For the best SEO results, you want to make sure your target keywords are in the domain while keeping it short.That being said you can use https://www.whois.net/ to look up the owner and contact info of any domain.

With a little SEO, content, and imagery, you can quickly build a site to rival the big advertisers when it comes to showcasing your house!

We are website and SEO novices that are new to the game.  

I have a lead gen website, and an SEO guy, I only pay about 1000 per month on Google Adwords, I haven't seen a lot of Success from it, I think we have done 1 deal from it in like 5 months.I have a system with HUD HOMES an TARGET ThoseWe brown MLS listings and put in 20 offers per week there.This is what I do, but looking for more way to be more efficient and get my costs down with more leads.  

Do a search online for SEO, Search Engine Optimization.

Are you just here to do the SEO bidding of your clients?

I run an SEO business BECASUE that is the best way to get leads.

Then I created a carrot website using a lot of Jerryll Noorden's techniques to rank high on search/SEO rankings for motivated sellers ie 'we buy houses' kind of terms.Then something funny happened.