The use predictive analytics to determine who might sell, they create social ads and online marketing to target them, and they get clicks. 90-95% of these appointments are really for investors because they are built around sell your house quickly and then an agent shows up and tries to list it.

Even before having your financial house in order, you need to have your mental house in order to operate and interact from a place of strength.

Recommend exploring as many sources as possible to get referrals AND cross-reference them to get as much accurate information as possible.Check out NARPM.com, BP’s Property Manager Finder (BiggerPockets: The Real Estate Investing Social Network), etc.Also, encourage you to learn from the mistakes of others - by reading posts here on BiggerPockets about owners not having their expectations met by their current Property Management Company.

A good PM should be on top of this and not simply ride out the market shifts.Technology & Reporting: What tools do they use to monitor guest interactions, maintenance, and property performance?

They do not know the entire story, so the rates and terms offered are just simply teaser rates to make you interact with them.

For those who continue to interact with me beyond the inevitable “Is this available?”

All of these have set their sites on Clark-Fulton as an area in need of social and economic uplift and some have dedicated funding to support these efforts.

Look up David Lecko, the founder of DealMachine, on social.

Again, the BiggerPockets store has some books on this topic, or you can learn about it by watching podcasts, reading blogs, and interacting on the forum.

Do you think Corvette dealers go home and cry every night because they can't sell their $80,000 car to a retiree on social security?