You also want to avoid "tire kickers" or people who are not ready to rent and just wasting time.

I know everyone likes the convenience of the web, and they are tired of hearing it, but this really is a business based on relationships, not online anonymity.

That's because tons of people tired of living in a cardboard box for $2,000 a month and are quickly getting the hell out of dodge:http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/01/03/its-a-fact-the-bay-area-rental-market-has-softened/http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/24/bay-area-rents-are-falling-new-survey-shows/http://www.siliconbeat.com/2016/10/24/bay-area-rents-falling-falling-falling/?

Also having a higher application fee might weed out tire-kickers, mine is 35 but that does pay for a pretty extensive background check which i'm not pocketing anything from.One other piece of advice might be to raise your application fee $5 to compensate you for the time you're working by showing the unit and marketing it.

Most of these guys have stacks of mail that they're SO TIRED of getting.

So the past 2 months I have focused on the direct mail route and stopped looking at the MLS (and I am an MLS junkie so it's hard, but I am so tired of highest and best)…so the plan is to get enough leads coming in through the direct mail that I can cherry pick the awesome, wholesale the rest, and live the dream (or at least that’s the plan).

But I'm getting tired and my mind is winding down . . .  

I got tired of the maximize my ROI rat race long ago.  

well one tip is in the northwest you can go to Les Schwab tires they fix any flat for free they just ask you consider them for your next tire purchase.this is a very fine line.. as I have been in the industry 40 some years now and have mingled with the very wealthy and of course those just starting out and or our laborers that just came in from Mexico.we all have our thing.. before they perforated paper towels in half I would tear mine in half.However my Dad was a little like this workaholic until one day our attorney told him he needs to stop and smell the roses.. that led to him buying a Time share in Maui way back in the late 60S when Maui was really cool.. and you only used it certain weeks so he bought the 2 weeks of thanksgiving and one after.. so for many years that's were we went.. he had to he owned it.I for one am not going to hoard and go through the pearly gates with a boat load of cash.

Sellers who don't want a parade of tire-kickers marching through their house.6.