Congress realty (Multiple states) has an office here, but their phone is a fax machine.

I run them through a copy machine and have them hand delivered to homes for sale.

We looked up his number, called and left a voice mail on the machine.

You are right though, I am learning about short sales as well so I can try it insteads of just losing my leads.i'd say target owners who may have equity. instead of going after all homeowners, go after the ones who've owned for 5-10 years, even longer. assuming they havent used their home as an atm machine they would have some equity. i had the same issue with unmotivated, upside down sellers as well and those phone calls are short.

Derek,most people think that you have to mass advertise which I disagree, you have to pick a smaller list and continue to work that and be in their presence more and your results will be better. 25 letters send 4 times a month to a specific list is better than 1000 letters once every month to a bigger list. every one thinks you just need one way to do marketing, you have to always be flexible and have variety of stuff to do your marketing with to generate new blood. all business either have too much or too little business as it is never balanced, its either family or feast. you should never turn off the marketing machine and constantly be looking out to take in new business with different strategies, as your business grows you continue using marketing but get pickier who you want to take on as a client. there is no magi pill of one item for successful marketing there are probably over 30 different things to do and you must be doing all 30 to get new customers.

Sometimes sellers don't like "talking to those machines" (elderly folks who are old fashioned) or would trust a live voice instead of an answering machine.

But on that note, if i can still improve the property in some ways such as adding vending machines, curb appeal, cutting expenses, etc. then i should have no issues with an exit plan and generating cash flow from a property that i purchase at 90+% of the value along with protecting my investors money.You make a good point about the local area in which i'm trying to invest.

Im looking for someone to help me fire up my marketing machine in austin today.I have a 200 dollar sytem im looking for someone to help me gas it up for 250 dollars if interested please  contact me ASAP and let do it right this minute.

Same as a car a boat or a snow machine.

Unfortunately, a lot of the GCs where am are really just quote machines with a nice white truck and good communication skills and can't problem solve their way out of paper bag.