Richard is unaware of what is going on because he is heavily sedated and his lungs are only operating due to the breathing machine breathing for him, otherwise, he would have already made his passage to whatever lies on the other side of our existence.

I quit my day job in Machine/Automation Industry to become a mortgage originator and RE agent about 2 yrs later with the ultimate goal of living off of my investments.

® Certainly not ethics...

But what if when you got to the soda fountain machine there were 24 product choices to choose from?

Congress realty (Multiple states) has an office here, but their phone is a fax machine.

I run them through a copy machine and have them hand delivered to homes for sale.

We looked up his number, called and left a voice mail on the machine.

You are right though, I am learning about short sales as well so I can try it insteads of just losing my leads.i'd say target owners who may have equity. instead of going after all homeowners, go after the ones who've owned for 5-10 years, even longer. assuming they havent used their home as an atm machine they would have some equity. i had the same issue with unmotivated, upside down sellers as well and those phone calls are short.

Derek,most people think that you have to mass advertise which I disagree, you have to pick a smaller list and continue to work that and be in their presence more and your results will be better. 25 letters send 4 times a month to a specific list is better than 1000 letters once every month to a bigger list. every one thinks you just need one way to do marketing, you have to always be flexible and have variety of stuff to do your marketing with to generate new blood. all business either have too much or too little business as it is never balanced, its either family or feast. you should never turn off the marketing machine and constantly be looking out to take in new business with different strategies, as your business grows you continue using marketing but get pickier who you want to take on as a client. there is no magi pill of one item for successful marketing there are probably over 30 different things to do and you must be doing all 30 to get new customers.

Sometimes sellers don't like "talking to those machines" (elderly folks who are old fashioned) or would trust a live voice instead of an answering machine.