That would be a drop in the bucket.

(he was an inherited tenant and part of the reason I got the building so cheap)https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tenant-hell-leaves-poo-smeared-17202910https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5315883/Is-VILE-tenant-Buckets-excrement-found.htmlI can't find it now, but the worst one for me was where it was pretty obvious there was some kind of child abuse going on, the one room the kid was in was almost worse than those pictures with locks on the outside of the door to lock the kid in. 

There are 3 "buckets" of people who will fund your deals as private lenders: The people who know you, love you and trust you, people who are already investing in real estate and people who are already making private loans on real estate.You'll have a different approach with all 3.

In the world of marketing, that's even less than a drop in a bucket.

One of the things I have learned by sending bucket loads of yellow letters is that the yellow letter presentation does frustrate some people.Think about it for a sec.

Justin SilverioWe sell a bucket load of postcards.

Have a capture system and a presentation and buy a bucket load of houses.  

People without equity cannot sell to you at a discount unless they bring a bucket of cash to the closing table, and these sellers don't have money or they would have repaired their houses and paid their house payments.2) Mailing to owner occupants, even with equity, is a huge waste of money.  

People not involved in REI lump every single investor in the same bucket.

Happy investing..I hope you make a bucket load of money!