Thank you for responding to my post several months ago and hopefully you will have more encouraging words for me.

We respond to tenant inquiries and needs in a timely manner.

Please respond so I can follow your thinking a little more clearly.

If she hasn't told you any motivations, ask her why she put her house in the market a year ago, and why she is responding to your marketing now after a year. 

I think $500 for a lead that is 1) openly interested in selling, enough so that they contacted or responded to your company 2) looking to sell "right now" or very soon and  3) willing to sell at a discounted price, is quite a reasonable price.

Hey Matt,Thanks for responding!

Some homes are zoned in commercial areas, a seller might assume it will be a commercial loan, but if the buyer moves in using it as a residence, it's a consumer loan.The difficult thing about taking a survey, which I'd like to see too, is that the respondents may read the listed "possible" exemptions and fail to look at the difference that some states apply as to an owner selling and someone being in the business of financing real estate sales, or land that may be used to build a residence.

@Tyler Merrell - Good question, but, without reinventing the wheel, please take a look at the BP link below and you will glean a lot of info that gives you a broad view on the pros and cons of section 8 from BPers.https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/81/topics/136...Also, @Bradley Bogdan responded on 8/2/14 and gave a detailed account from his administrative position/perspective on housing veterans via section 8 HUDVASH program.

I respond that its is not that they lie but rather that to be successful in this business they needed to have endless optimism.

@Tamiko Kettrles-Woods Welcome, when you are responding on a thread if you use the @ sign and start to type the name of the person you are trying to communicate with their name will appear at the bottom of the post box, click on it to start your post it should highlight the name and when you post it will notify the person you are talking to that they have a communication.