Can you spend money on a CRM, automations, VA calling service, a VOIP phone system, etc?

Hey Sharad, be happy to chat over the phone when you have time. 

We're letting them come at us from all angles (phone, text, email, portal) but... it is 2025 and we do push the portal pretty hard. 

Before you gave them your cash they answered their phones on the first ring every time you had a question.

Then I spoke to him over the phone later that day, and he told me, that unless I answer him if I wanted to buy the property within a few hours, I will lose the chance to get this property, claiming that there will likely not be such chances again in the future.

This was within the fine print, but I was told by email/phone that it would be within 30days. 

We could be a great fit.I’d love to hop on a phone call one of these days and deep dive into this together.

He personally screened every tenant, handled every maintenance request, and even showed up to mow the lawn at his properties when the landscapers were running late.His phone rang constantly—contractors, tenants, vendors—all needing his immediate attention.

Here's how I’ve successfully found off-market properties:Direct Mail: You can pull lists of absentee owners, tax delinquencies, probate properties, and more, and send them direct mail offering a cash sale.Driving for Dollars: This means driving through neighborhoods looking for distressed properties and either leaving a note on the door or contacting the owner.Cold Calling: Use public records or services like Prop Stream to pull lists, then contact owners directly by phone to see if they’re interested in selling.Networking with Agents: Many real estate agents work with investors and have access to off-market deals (pocket listings).

There are other variables that can significantly affect the overall performance of your cold calling campaigns, like your MSA, zip codes you chose within your MSA, the dialer you use, the size of your list, how fresh your list is, the quality of the property records on your list, the quality of your phone numbers on your list, and if the phone numbers you're dialing from in your dialer are being marked as spam.