.- Send Callers to Voicemail and return the calls later (will get more hang ups and they are usually difficult to get back on the phone.  

Rent-to-own deals moves very fast if the property is in nice area, and/or if you market it very well.You can place your little advert boards in busy intersections in your area, and use different strategies like; RENT-TO-OWN in [zip code]                        3 be/2ba, 10 - 20% rent creditGet your callers/potential renters phone numbers and E-mails, fix a Saturday open house show, and you may get some renters that may want to pay you more than 5% for down payment as option fee.Refer your best potential renters to a good Mortgage broker to help you determine their financial abilities, and pick who can pay you constant on a monthly basis.good luck. 

I don't know the legalities of this method, but think about your own experiences with unknown callers.

I've  been practicing the information gathering step for many years now, when a sellers calls me, they reach my cell phone, I do not trust others negotiating this lead call (I've spent too much money for that lead to be wasted on someone asking the wrong questions).I think you have to be very aware and understand that the caller is suspicious of the investor, all he knows about the investor is what was written in letter or on a card or bandit sign.

I have found that it really weeds out the B.S. callers and when a person provides their info before hand they keep their appointments.I do a separate digital application with Cozy when I have whittled the field and get ready for background check.

Do you think the caller meant stock market correction?  

And I totally get what you're saying, @Dev Horn, about the different types of callers.

For #1--I'm not a cold caller.

Log time listener, first time caller :)First, I would like to give a shout out to @Brandon Turner and his sidekick, co-host @Joshua Dorkin (insert evil chuckle here) for the many great hours of entertainment on my daily commutes.

Nowadays, people are suspicious of unsolicited callers (we can thank the long distance phone carriers of the 1990's for pushing the limits).