I’ve built my new CRM around mail and SMS marketing since those things (unlike cold calling) have the ability with today’s technology to be fully automated.

Now the largest broker in the world...approximately 185,000 agents, 50+ countries, profitable, debt free, growing like crazy, we profit share, building best in class technology  #1 in agents, #1 in units closed, #1 in sales volume, #1 in training.   

I build raport quickly with the agent in the loss mitigation department as quickly as possible,letting them know I am a person and not just an investing machine.These are some, but I'm interested in knowing other's strategies.Brandon GadishLandlord Technology LLC

Don't piss her off by pushing your new fangled technology on her.

:D I've been self-employed in the technology field for about 10 years.

I currently work as a technology consultant so I'm constantly on the road, and in my free time I like to play hockey, rock climb, and mountain bike.My first goal is to house hack to reduce my living expenses, then from there I'd like to start acting on some of the strategies I've been reading about to generate some passive income in real estate.  

We have tons of slack in the labor market (low labor force participation rate) and technology is having a deflationary impact on growth as it increasingly takes the place of low skilled labor and makes its way up the value chain.  

Senthil N. you don't happen to work with Cisco collaboration technologies, do you?

My occupation is in Information Technology.

Has technology and services moved on enough to say that the legacy fees of realtors should be amended. 6% of a transaction for the actual services provided to the seller seems to me very unfair.