Most of the time, applicants are sending out mass inquires and tend to forget who they've replied to. 

Mass marketing is for massive companies... think Coca Cola or Pepsi.

Portland is booming and will only continue to do so, unless the cost of living in CA somehow plummets and the mass exodus North ceases.

I have concluded that these mass text are coming from inexperienced people that are new to the business. 

Stew on that for a moment, in the year of mass pandemic, news of mass death, population GREW by almost 400,000!!!!

And $190M in facility upgrades2) In Downtown the Mass Ave district has been revamped and would probably be unrecognizable to you today: converted Coca-Cola bottling plant to a beautiful Art Deco hotel, movie theatre, food hall, fine dining...that's just one block3) IU Health (near Northside) announced in January a $4.3B expansion, making it the largest of its kind in the United States history4) Elanco - a subset of pharmaceutical giant, Eli Lilly (also HQ here) - broke ground last summer on their project, which will employ 100k people, valued at $160M.Indianapolis is no longer the sleepy "Nap Town" that you remember from the 90's.

It is true, when first starting out it is market one of the most attainable ways to get into the the REI field, which makes it appeal to the masses, and some do jump the gun.

Self development/education is a muscle.

If you add in a word of encouragement, it will take you further than a mass mailer.)Prove me Wrong!

Does anyone know of a mass texting service out there?