This may afford you access to the MLS and enable you to earn commissions when you buy and sell properties.

Because you will hold a property for many years, what happens after the first day is far more important than what happens on day one.Financial IndependenceIn order to have financial independence you need a income replacement equal to your current income that also meets three requirements:Inflation compensating: Rental income keeps pace with inflation, enabling you to pay inflated prices to maintain your standard of living.Persistent income: Your income will last so you will not run out of money.Reliable income: Your income continues even in difficult economic times.Unless rents keep pace with inflation, your time off the daily worker treadmill will be short.

It enables individuals to make more informed choices, align their actions with their values, and develop a stronger sense of purpose.

Asking great questions, building rapport and trust with the seller, and uncovering the "why" behind the sale enables you to get past price and explain the situation as it is.

You will save some money enabling  you to contact more addresses.  

One flip done right can enable an investor to buy more buy and holds.

The Street Addressing option enables customers to receive packages and deliveries from private carriers who require a street address for delivery, such as UPS and FedEx."

We all desire to be in the real estate space so we should all learn the rules before we dive in over our heads or say the wrong things on the first or even the last conversation.Lets work together to make the market that feeds us appreciate us rather than enable them to think we're here taking a property from the neighbors grandparents or great grandparents. 

Any suggestions, outside of phone calls and personalized letters, to achieve the same rapport enabled by door knocking...but for absentee owners?

Not surprisingly, we employ those same elements in our branding strategy.Because they (typically) would not enable me to exploit my branding, I have never mailed yellow letters myself, so I'll leave that topic up to the experts.