Very, very successful.I sent out beige "invitation" envelopes and "hand written" letters (used a computer with a "hand written font" for months - about 200 a week - lots of calls - bought some properties, over all successful but time consumingThis is over the years, so messages changed with the real estate climate and list.List, message, mailing piece.

To replace your income you need to flip a lot of houses, I'd do the math with an average 10-15% profit margin, because you have to account for some turds.The other opportunity is to change your job and take out the element that you hate.

I do truly want to hold on to it and I think I'm just nervous to change my manager, though I don't feel it is going as well as I'd like it to.

If you believe you can carry this place, without a negative carry, make any necessary repairs and can make changes to improve the rents...

Also you could start with local Plan-printing companies as they're always printing plan sets for architects and designers before they go to county and after the county comes back with changes.

It's not a perfect solution, but for us, we don't change the availability of a unit until we have a signed contract.

Address changesPassport changes Name changes via marriageOther ownership changesWhat's the big deal?

This resulted in needing to bring in a rescue fund to take over the property and change the name, pushing our original investors down to B-2 status.

these rules came in Post Dodd Frank so yes many of us did this for decades BEFORE Dodd Frank changed it all.

Before the 1% "rule" there was the 2% "rule" that then got reduced as the market changed.