Tip: opening probate is not required to hold an estate sale; only when title to real estate is anticipated to be passed to distributees (heirs and beneficiaries), sold or encumbered.Unless there is a particular catalyst (foreclosure, pressing creditor or heir, etc.) or the personal financial pressures of a family member, most probate are sold or distributed in a fairly orderly fashion along a 12 - 18 month post- death timeline.

I've heard that Zillow has a service for real estate agents that sells leads in a similar fashion (though I don't know all the mechanics of how their system works).

Sounds a bit robotic to categorize human beings in this fashion but I'd think in a business built on networking it is never a bad thing to be over-organized to aide memory.

If a county doesn't update it's records in a timely fashion (and many of them don't), then these services won't be able to do any better.

Invariably, they enjoyed investing success, and then at some point whipped out an Excel spreadsheet and determined that they could make more money, leverage their time in an unbelievably profitable fashion, with better hours, by morphing into a coaching organization that is harnessed to state-of-the-art marketing.And if you're not a self-starter, do you really have any chance at being successful as a real estate entrepreneur, with a coaching program or otherwise?

OK try this.Take a good ol fashioned brick.

Do you actually answer the phone or call back in a timely fashion?

I've tried online apps and computer docs. to organize and keep track of my goals but, for me, there's no substitute for the good old fashioned yellow pad of paper I use.

1) After a Saint Patrick's day weekend of drinking not being able too all day is worth the ticket2) Trying to match members to their 10 year old pictures will be a hoot3) catching up on fashion pointers by watching what josh wears is better than a GQ magazine4) the adult video convention going on at the same time.

A neutral colored tile will stay in fashion for years and years with tenant acceptance.Just my experience.Everyone has a different take.