Like someone teaching you to play "Mary Had A Little Lamb" on a trumpet, then telling you that you can be a great trumpet player. 

You said something that is a huge red flag in real estate.

These articles definitely give you a macro perspective of the entire metro because there were definitely areas of Sacramento that were red hot with absolutely no slow down or price decreases.

That's a red flag isn't it?  

So you are in a very well played market on this one2) So many of the companies ( KW - eEdge) offers this as a part of their CRM and many other companies such as MailChimp, ConstantContact, Aweber, TopProducer etc, handle this at such a high level, an email drop system is one of the most competitive fields that is saturated with big players. 

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He did get signed up eventually :) Putting aside my little lie to my kid, I think we fall prey to lies because we want to believe something so bad that we miss the obvious signs and red flags.

@Richard Redding How do you know a tenant has abandoned rental property?

If you are not a broker, my suggestion is to find a good RE investor friendly attorney that can look over what you are doing and let you know if there are some possible potholes or red flags. 

This way, it's on their credit report and they'll be red flagged immediately so future landlords will know what's up.