I simply dont understand why someone would waste their time on writing 400 offers they know they have no chance of coming to terms on.

DON'T waste their time!

I've been trying lately to ask questions that would reveal a 'no' ASAP so I don't waste time and have been finding it helpful, I hope it's of some us to you as well.

ie. if you DON'T know what's owed, you'll be largely wasting your time anyway, and your odds of success won't be ANY better than those blanket campaigns you seem bent on avoiding!

I decided to download Audible and listen to Rich Dad Poor Dad (Which my dad has been telling me to read since I was 12 - Imagine how frustrated I was to find out I wasted over 10 years of what could've been real estate experience).

Don't waste your money!!

Many clients think that a contractor can become wildly successful by elevating their service, while many seasoned contractors know from experience that trying to up-sell their service is mostly a waste of time.

I managed a 326 unit apt building and did all the evictions for them, its basically simple once you've done one, you will be used to the format and if a 326 unit building let me do their evictions it was because a attorney would have been a waste of money. 

Wasted their seller's time, my buyer was out a grand, wasted my time, etc.

@Michelle Damiano Chase isn't going to sell a one off residential note unless it's in a pool trade of $50M...Sorry but its not worth their time to do it on a one-off basis...I'm direct to their VP of special assets and the pricing for these pools are in the 60-70% range and not worth it when you can get better deals elsewhere.A few years ago a group was selling classes based on buying from the big banks...they were more interested in selling education without delivering real deals...big waste of time.While smaller regional banks do sell on a case by case basis, or have quarterly sales, Chase, Citi, Wells, BOA aren't in that group.