Jerry,One thing you will need to make sure when you speak with the owners is that you don't come off as a greedy investor who wants to take advantage of someone's situation.

IBD is 'geared' for active traders and their technical models, specifically CAN-SLIM.

Hey @Zach Nelson ,I have bought a couple places in the Peoria, IL area and have used Ryan Blackorby who is a broker for Traders Realty and has an office in East Peoria.  

Then, Intuit increased the price to $125 per year and then Intuit stopped selling the tables and forced everyone to switch to Quickbooks.I had no problem with trying to switch to Quickbooks and I purchased the full version three times for about $500 each time and literally threw the software in the trash because it asked too many questions during the setup, was cumbersome and difficult to use, was so complicated it left room for making too many errors, had too many whistles and bells to deal with and there three things that make me hate Quickbooks with a passion and they are:1) it is web based and super slow when changing screens, 2) the software has so many screens to enter information on it is difficult to know whether or not information you enter goes to where it was supposed to go e.g. you may accidentally type in a wrong number, or you may enter data as a debint when it should be a credit and3) Intuit is greedy and found that they could charge $109 per month for the software and the tax tables and that comes out to $1308.00 every year, or $13,080 every 10 years compared to the $99 or $990 every 10 years I was paying for Quicken that was simple to setup and use, but it still had some file storage problems that were fairly frustrating to deal with.I had a major IRS audit about 10 years ago and it was the first major audit I dealt with for several real estate properties in California, Idaho, Las Vegas and Colorado.

Some people, like you, me and 85% of the population does not like to be harassed by pushy and greedy people that ONLY care about making a dollar and won't accept my need to "let me ponder on this by myself for a bit". so thus far:30 leads.Motivated 3 + 2Not Motivated: 15 + 8= 23You just lost 8 people that would have otherwise signed up with you if you were patient and gave them space. 

Getting too greedy gets you nowhere in this business.

Many of stocks investors (traders) I know of were buying real estate between 2010 and 2012 using cash.

They would love to be near Whole foods or Trader Joes.

We already offered below what the appraised value was initially, but the seller was greedy and upped the price.

Does the average Joe have to pay more for his home because greedy real estate investors buy up all the houses?