I'm standing in the cold rain answering his questions.

Check out my "South East Michigan Housing Report" thread to see more info on the different cities from an appreciation stand point.

This means your letter needs to stand out and be different from all the rest.

Two questions stand out to me.

Double the EM stands to a seller.

Here's an article I wrote on how you can stand out as a wholesaler - should be helpful for ya: http://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/4430/blog_posts/32194-attention-wholesalers-2-ways-to-stand-out-from-your-competition

They should come out with the same result, but I would want to make sure each could stand on its own.Kevin

If you can't stand the heat of political discussions, stay out of the kitchen :-).

Though I can't help you much from a mentor stand point I would be happy to meet up for a beer and talk REI with you as I am in a similar position to you.

But I will firmly stand behind the statement that providing education and doing RE investing are two different businesses.And I will also state that I do think there are many "educators" in this business who provide very little value for the amount of money they extract from their "students".