It seems like in her interview with Sharon, she was also mentioning something about having sellers screen themselves for her and even send her pictures of properties.I know that there seems to be an anti-guru, anti-course sentiment here. $1,200 is a lot of money but I could easily lose that much by not doing a direct mail campaign properly or by not getting a great deal when I buy.Any thoughts?

People just don't respond the same to the mailers if you don't utilize the correct cotton fiber content in your paper.Sorry, just gotta chime in here and say THANK YOU to Aaron for putting words to sentiments held so long.

I understand everything said above and the sentiment people feel. 

Your sentiments are reasonable. 

I agree with that sentiment - I have seen a property go to sheriff sale where Wells Fargo was the lender for a first position, and trustee on the second position.

I generally agree with the sentiment that the Portland real estate market and others may not feel like bubbles due to a general trend of livability/demand + constrained supply.

I know that this is a personal flaw and that I should go for it if it makes sense to me after doing my own research, however, I can't help but think that it may not work out the way I believe it could based on all of the negative sentiment I have received from family and friends.

I know some of the sentiment around here is to just get your marketing pieces in the mail, but I'd like to do some level of testing to see what works before significantly ramping up my direct mail campaigns.Finally, the main reason we are doing this is our thought process was that Listsource is available to any Tom, Dick or Harry out there whereas our list would be complied ourselves and target obviously distressed properties.

I had no idea such anti success sentiment lived in this forum.

These capital raisers' sentiment is, "Well, so long as I'm a part of the GP, it's legal.