Give yourself options meaning flexibilityStart out individual, but have several price points in mind for package dealExample :~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Property #a - $35kProperty #b - $13k (same street )Property #c - $9k (same street )Property #d- $7k ( same street )Buyer Mr Brewer : request interest in properties b,c,d (package deal)Brian (example ) : what are your thinking for price pointA moment of quietness Investor Mr Brewer : I’m thinking $25kBrian : I will need the contract signed and earnest money of $3k [ Non-refundable ]Now you down to 1 property to move $35kJust my opinion

Blackstone(one of the largest players) owns 29,000 rental units out of 115,000,000 homes in the US (.002% of homes).

One of them even comes with a free CD ROM with all the contracts you need.

In no way am I advertising any of these programs and I do not have any affiliation with these organizations, just wanting to share this info in case somebody else can reap the benefits from them: http://www.grasshopper.com - This is a wonderful voice mail system that projects you out like one of the big players.

Once I have the players separated from the common folk, I will probably be dealing with seasoned people and companies anyway.Glad I read this thread before attempting the shotgun blast approach.

That number is sufficient for smaller players.

q=cache:u03FFRj_2uAJ:https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p560.pdf+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us Earned income.

In my experience it's very common that Buyers lender wants to see if earnest money is on the CD/HUD.

CD investing it is!

Now you would be earning pretty good interest rates on the liens (at least better than a savings account or CD) but you are tying up a lot of cash.I bought my first lien in the late 1980's.