Run water down every drain, check every window, etc.

he is not sharing that info with you or I...Greenspan said the housing market is rock solid right before it crashed... everything comes in cycles... when builders can build they will build until they can't...when it goes down, the bottom will be around the same prices were in 07', and we are at that point now and the housing starts are not enough to fill demand, i think we have a few more years of run up... things will also be affected locally if we still have 10k people moving here year after year they have to live somewhere... who knows intel might not be around in 15 years and drain the local economy... 

You're pulling from a work force of highly volatile people, who're tasked w/ doing an extremely physically and mentally draining job (in whatever weather mother nature provides for the day). 

Those funds are drained directly from checking and savings accounts, and victims sometimes have little recourse once compromised.

They pay the rent, I keep the drains running.

Fill up the bank account, drain it, then beat it to the Cayman Islands. 

And what that underlying issue is can be one or more of several different things; a French drain would typically come into play if the cause here is from water pressure of the surrounding soil.Backing out might have been the right choice. 

Are there any street drains nearby?

If you are sending out 1,000 letters 6 times you need a bigger budget than $5k and be prepared to just piss it down the drain. 

On the other side live cold calling can be miserable to do, people can be rude (as they have every right to be) and it can be emotionally draining over time.