Here is my approach on the probate:1st mailers are normally just a white professional letter expressing my condolences to the family and just letting them know that I am looking for a house in the general area of the estate and when or if they want to sell to please give me a call.Then a month later i will check back up with them with a yellow letter, hand written, pretty much just letting them know a little more who I am and that I am still interested in there property and leave them with my number to get in touch with me.After another month I will check back in with a post card letting them know that I'm still here and just checking back up with them pretty much.After that last post card i will normally wait 60 days to send another post card, and then that post card will pretty much be the same as the last post card I sent them.

There are a few avenues I can think of to find deals off the top of my head:Do your own marketing and find them yourself (for example: send postcards/mailers to out of state of owners)Work with an investor-minded real estate agent who have access to on and off-market dealsConnect with wholesalers in your areas to find investor-friendly, off-market deals Given the competitive nature and lack of inventory, I'd recommend you definitely at least work with an agent and connect with wholesalers.

The LLCs are a small portion of the absentee list so I just leave them in my mailings.If they own multiple properties (I do not de-dup my abssntee list when I purchase it) we manually clean the list to send no more than 2 postcards per owner (for 2 of their properties).  

then i would send out one of those "we buy houses" postcards to find people that want to sell you properties. 

Then take $5,000 a month and invest it in postcards and yellow letters.

I'm going to be targeting recent lis pendens notices. My question is how far back should I target. Should I go for 90 days 120  60 or 30. I was also told that I would have to send more than correspondence. My next que...

I know I don't need a website, but how helpful would it be too have one so that I can put a brand on the Yellow Letter or Postcard and include my website address on my mailers so it looks and feels more legit and personal?

I have PRIMARILY used Yellow Letters, postcards, signs, company website. 

Uploading a list and a postcard from my computer to a mailing house's website doesn't seem to invalidate the "virtual" aspect to me.Some follow up with my free trial fiasco.

I will tell you one of the greatest weapons we’ve had is receiving other investors/agent letters and postcards from sellers.