It usually takes a sustained campaign with many responses after 4+ mailings.With calling and door-knocking it's a little different, a no is a no.

If you're wanting to mention within the marketing piece that you specialize in helping people who are this type or that type fine however I wouldn't directly go after the small groups. for two reasons. 1 - they're not large enough to sustain a business model and 2 - I don't want all of my eggs in one basket.

I know there are fonts out there that look like handwriting, manually writing letters will give you arthritis and carpel tunnel and while they may seen like a nice touch it's just not sustainable 

In a world in which Realtors represented an actual service industry, instead of a profit maximizing semi monopoly with PR and lobbyist to try to convince the public otherwise, and political contributions geared to the interests of sustaining their interests, wholesalers opportunity for profits would be very limited.  

Besides the excitement about affordable property values and some young people taking advantage of this affordability, what are the real driving factors that will carry these markets forward and ultimately transform them into healthy, sustainable areas?

@Todd Dexheimer a sustained bull market facilitates the illogical wrong-think of investors accepting a smaller delta in the false belief that the good times will never end.

A more precise way to word this would be that a primary residence does not generate cash flow upon which one can sustain early financial freedom. 

@Ryan Battista  no doubt... however my opinion on this and watching wholesalers for 20 plus years since it became a thing is only about 2 to 5 in a hundred have any kind of sustainable success.. and you may be the one of those so hats off to you.I do know though if you have those same sales skills and make no mistake about it you need MAD sales skills to be a good wholesaler.. and you had the same budget you could absolutely kill it as a real estate broker for the rest of your life..

I bet with just 100k I could still sustain 3GF LOL

Also, being that the average prices here are way above what many traditional metrics say is sustainable, all it ever would have taken was for one little hiccup (A recession, Amazon shifting to hiring elsewhere, other cities getting more tech jobs in general...