@Chevron Humphrey I'm a Realtor from the South Side of Chicago feel free to pm me anytime and we can discuss more market data.

Other than locally available data, we like to get absentee owner lists from Listsource (I show you how in this video) and we use postcards rather than letters as we can hit almost 2x the people with postcards.YellowLetters.com has some super nice postcards that will cost less than your cost for letters and will save you time as well.Hope that helps - best wishes!

I'm learning to get things quicker now that I have a good spreadsheet process to input data.

A good test is to see how you would feel if the property value and rents didn't increase for the next 10 years.

Though the data is a little out of date (we're currently just shy of 320,000 members), the article is definitely solid and is of course, great press for us.How a Real Estate Investor Built a Thriving Social Network of 250K UsersPlease check it out and if you can, share it on your social media channels (Facebook / Twitter / LinkedIn / etc ) to help us spread the word!

I'm currently waiting to get my application processed to take my test in RE Agent test in California.  

My lawyer told me that labor law in my state had a simple means test to identify employees vs 1099 independent contractors. 1) to you directly supervise and or give directions to the employee?

I will be taking the test shortly. 

So always have a woman do a smell test if a male says it's acceptable; if a male says it smells bad, no need to have a woman check ... it's going to smell bad to a woman too. 

To have it be one that tested us and showed us where things can go off-the-rails.