once your send it out, there goes your money and you're now stuck to chance, "odds", and the best you could do in trend research on a list provider, etc...BUUUT, if I had a decent size budget, I'd spread it out between a healthy balance of PPC and tossing up my own website and throwing proper seo campaigns at it to rank for the necessary "motivated seller" terms that have decent search traffic...this way I have control over my budget and can see the short term (PPC) benefits along with the long term (SEO) benefits.the only caveat to this approach is you WILL NEED to really know your stuff for PPC and SEO...but if you obviously have a marketing budget you'll probably want to carve out some room to consult or hire someone who knows what to do and how to do so that you're not throwing money at the wind bc if you try to do it on your own, you might as well just send mailers lolsorry so long, but the cool thing about real estate is that there's always an alternative path to a solution...its just a matter of finding it and where there's a multitude of counsel, there's bound to be gem of an answer somewhere!

I aggressively started paying off my student loans, and credit card debt, and poring more money into my 401k and stock purchase program.  

For example, I will lose 10 lbs by the end of March 30, 2012 by eating healthy salad, and exercising 1 hour a day.

I think a healthy mix along with a healthy mix of other assets is good for one's portfolio.

Good to see her healthy.

I think 20-40% of equity is healthy although many on BP would argue against that point.

Areas with a healthy balance of supply and demand will have more motivated sellers and active buyers.Consider Price Points: Target markets where homes are priced in the sweet spot for investors, often between $100k and $300k.

NAR’s numbers show a healthy bump in inventory—a 5.9% month-over-month increase and a 10.3% rise year-over-year, rounding out to about 1.07 million units up for grabs.Despite the bigger selection, buyers are still out in full force, pushing the median existing-home sales price up by 5.7% from last year to $384,500.

A few things to consider when starting out:1) Be sure you have liquidity for the down payment, but also a healthy reserve account, since unexpected costs will come up while owning real estate. 

I require a letter from a vet (basically saying dog isn't a danger or cat is healthy) and a fully refundable deposit between$1,500 and $2,500.