Hi John,You can let it ring until you get a voicemail/answering machine, but leaving a message really depends on your followup strategy.  

Usually with just one phone call.That pretty much makes my entire marketing machine self sustainable.

Wholesalers who've built a good business and want to move up can let their machine run so they can utilize their own marketing efforts.

many are on yellow letters  many are post cards.. a lot are in handwriting with handwriting machines.. and the public frankly they fall for it.. but most of these folks are just not familiar with how things work in the industry..

And the last robot I built them (gov) ended up with a machine gun on its shoulders!

It takes more than a printer and a knowledge of mail merge to be a marketer, and more than some pretty envelopes & quirky machines to succeed.

Jared is an absolute machine of a real estate investor and a wonderful human, I thoroughly enjoy working with him.I didn't know you were at the Worklofts previously!

I just started using Deal Machine.

And if you arent using a service that can dump a pre-recorded message on a answering machine automatically when you are live calling shame on you.And hopefully all of your marketing is being tracked inside of a CRM. over the last 24 months I have nearly 32,000 points of contact with my prospects , all of which i can listen back to and read past messaging.

For absentee I have my own list making machine - I had a friend develop a program to sort through all the tax records for any area and produce a neat table with property and absentee owner contact info.