At the least, the other agents will not call about your home and steer prospective buyers away.  

If he's conveying to her that he doesn't want to sell it, I figure either that is the truth and no one is prospecting him or he does want to sell and he's just not telling her (assuming she's a confidant like his wife or common law).BLUF: I'm looking for suggestions on how to follow up this botched call.

So far my market research leads me to believe that I'll find the best prospects on the outskirts of large metro areas, and I've decided for now I'd like to stay within the western U.S.

You will sit down 7 hours, and half of the the time is pitching you, if you don't know anything about real estate you will be their perfect prospect to buy the advance program for 20k, this is ridiculous and unacceptable, if their plan is trying to sell more this workshop should be free and no  ripping  people off like this.In the three days the will give overall information and always come with the point that you need mentor buying their programs.One more think they have form asking about your financial information to see if you can transfer funds from 401k or whatever you have to pay the 20k for the course.These people are a joke., 

Also I can not imagine that in 60 days the property has not been shown to any prospective buyers.

Since I was a teenager I have had a love for making an outdated home beautiful from my mom (who enlisted me for help due to her lack of eye for design) renovating her home. Since it was always on a tight budget, we go...

Very excited to be learning and even more excited at the prospect of starting out.

Review the prospect and try to meet the prospect before deciding to sign the lease.All adults(18 and above) going to live in the house should have an application filled out.Also look for realtors who specialize in your area or in rentals.

Here in winter fewer renter prospects, even when I try not to rent then and have leases expire not in winter, stuff happens. 

Then I developed a relationship with a title company that sent me profiles with copies of all deeds and mortgages on a given property that I focused on.If you want specialized data from courthouse (not county recorder) such as probate, divorce, lawsuits, etc.) you'll need to physically visit the courthouse and ask a clerk the local system for pulling files from which you will manually review individual cases and pull relevant data.Beyond this, you'll just need to begin and assemble a hit list of leads and market to them to separate suspects and prospects.