At this stage of the game, seller may be shopping for a higher offer.

It will save you a lot of wasted time.Recently I have gotten a lot more aggressive about my screening.I include the following:Are a real person, not a scammer or just window shopping for a move some day???

Several bags of garbage left in the basement. 

hey there.. its the most wonderful time of the year.. which means lots of online shopping, packages being delivered and packages being STOLEN..

I could see the police responding if there is some specific criminal activity in progress that they need to deal with, but it's not likely the police are going to go house shopping with you - even if it is in a rough neighborhood. 

Most buyers are shopping online, and therefore you should be marketing the best representation of the property.

For example, let's say you pick X city to set up shop. 

I've also got one property where I have talked to over a dozen lenders and I'm still debt shopping. - Find a mortgage broker and they will check with a bunch of different lenders.

I have an idea that could make you pocket you some quick dough in our tech driven info age:Develop an app for finding absentee owners using someone on Fiverr or some techie in India for cheapCall it something snazzy like "Absentee Owner Gold"Market it like crazy online and make it available on Google Play and the Apple Store and anywhere else applicable for a cheap price like $1.99 with no refunds Have customer support via email or phone only in some foreign country where english is a fourth languageTech/info driven real estate investors buy it in drovesThey open the app and a message pops up "knock on some of the neighbors doors"Frustrated customers call/email customer support and get further frustrated by the inability to communicate with foreign customer service whose english is a fourth language but they string the customer along anyway thus buying you time to make more salesKeep it up for as long as it takes to make 6 or 7 figures Close up shop and disappear

It is really a one stop shop for all things management.