I would agree, Rich, that real estate has good prospects as an inflation hedge.

I am seeking your advice to gain another prospective on sources of equity financing and/or creative ways to obtain financing during these current economic conditions.

Getting to my question, he seems like a good prospective cash buyer and I want to follow up with him.

But I also hear that varies on everything from marketing material to number of contacts made to each prospect as well as if your using a real stamp for postage.

The "goal" for ALL web traffic is to convert Traffic to Leads; Leads to Prospects; Prospects to Calls; and Calls to Sales If your not "meeting the wavelength" of the person who just landed on your site, or a better way to say it...

Over the years I can't count the number of deals that I put together from my rejects.My father in law was a long time life insurance salesman and one day he opened up a desk drawer and it was filled with letter size paper with handwritten notes regarding suspects/prospects that he had run into, he would check with the top sheet when he had down time and if nothing new put it on the bottom of the pile with any new notes.His sales manager said to throw them out and forget them but his list of clients had a star next to some names and he told me they were former dead leads or referrals from former dead leads and I saw a lot of stars.

If you explain to any prospective tenants that the woman next door is mentally ill, then they'll be prepared to deal with the situation.

Here in IL, the foreclosure process takes 7 months or longer, so many preforeclosure prospects don't respond until they are a little further into the timeline (sometimes too late), for various reasons.

Meanwhile, I'm at home working on creating some info sheets to put in the box for prospective people to take with them.

Several investors I know ran out of time identifying these prospective properties because their relinquished property sold faster than they expected.