We like our careers but being able to exercise that innovative thought pattern to freely think about a project that's personal to us vs a project that's required of us is much more fun and rewarding.

Fact is a shifting market is the magic hour for innovators, it's when we bloom and success is like a rocket ship.

Now if you are seeing that almost everyone has a college degree except for a few outliers whose actions did not follow any particular course you can duplicate than its time to drop the lesser goal for the greater goal, suck it up, go to college and establish yourself in every meaningful way that will get you to where you want to be.My personal advice is just one of many voices but I'll give it.

Yet they DO believe it’s ok to willingly sign a 30-40 year mortgage and pay $100s of Thousands of dollars in interest for 30-40 years merely because its commonplace and the because the mortgage community has the loudest voice.

. - nice innovative, customer centric work!

Use a Google Voice number so you can remain separate from your business.

I am mailing to what I admit is a small list, about 300 names, that I divided it up into 4 chunks of ~75 each, with the intent of mailing to a chunk per week, so that each name gets touched about once a month, and I intend to mail to them until they have been hit at least 6 times, maybe 7.My list covers my local zip code, is aimed at absentee owners who's property hasn't had a sale in the last 10 years (so hopefully there is some equity).The letters are simple, typical 'I want to buy your house at <address> give me a call' yellow letters, the phone number is a local google voice number that has a message from me about how I buy houses in any condition, can close fast, etc etc, the idea being that the letters generate a higher volume of response and the phone message filters out some/most of the tire kickers.Of the ~225 letters that have been sent so far (last batch of round 1 goes in the mail next week) I have heard back from about 20 people, and by heard back I mean they listened to the entire voice mail then left me a message.  

Hello BP,Can I get some good, honest constructive criticism about our voice mail?  

Body language, facial features, & tone of voice will help get a sense of what the person you're talking to is really feeling. 

Google Voice - changed since Google Hangout began and now it isn't just for  a second phone line but a lot of features that are not necessary2.