The IRS (collection arm of the empire's financial branch) apparently likes to 'target' those who 'go against the grain' of their master's servitudinal debt enslavement paradigm, so I'm not surprised that many of these guys end up 'defamed,' imprisoned and penniless, or worse!

If you can only afford to send 500 letters per month, that's fine, but expect that it will take many, many, many, many months to start to get a handle on what works and what doesn't.While I'm sure there are guys out there who have built a real estate empire with no experience and no money, they are the VERY rare exception.

I say this empirically, and not with undue cynicism or scorn.

Contractors that rely on investors for most of their work either have zero people skills or hands that grow out their butts or both.As a small-ball investor calling around for contractors and trying to impress them with how incredibly serious you are with turning your handful of properties into a rental empire and thereby trying to drive their prices down...in most parts of this great country of free enterprise you are literally NEVER going to get a high-quality job done quickly in your properties.

Do you want to run a short term rental empire - and if so, why?

I am currently living on +-35% of my income and putting the rest (65%) into Real Estate to build an empire as fast as possible.

@Jeannine Brown I do not know him personally, but I know Aaron Mazzrillo is active in the Inland Empire and may have some good recommendations.  

Which for empirical data really doesn't mean squat but they did feel safe enough to buy a condo down there...

There is also a TON of competition in the Inland Empire area, so I have to send out way more letters to get responses.

Most of the empirical data suggests much lower typical response from PC's.