You can have your mailers, business cards, lettered cars and baseball hats that say "I buy houses....really I do

I have worked with alot of sellers lately (in this crappy market) who got Helocs, used their house as a debit card, :roll: and now are upside down because their home value went down 20%.

Network with other investors and get business cards of ones that are legitimate buyers.

For him, its drawing these little drawings on the backs of business cards.

They're called credit cards.

Bend my ID card and throw a tenant out of a house?

SInce these "rules" seem to be a guiding light for so many, instead of crunching actual numbers, and since these "rules" are rather flexible given the price point and other considersations, maybe we should have a graphic or grid that would identify the best per centages to use for the different property types, for a banded analysis concidering price, market and investment aggressiveness (like a bond rating in reverse) to the risk tolerance..

One guy gave me his card and we talked about his business which I can see myself checking out in the near future.

Tenants say a bunch of things and follow through on a few.I would congratulate and send a restaurant gift card of say 25 or 50 bucks when they close on their house.Just because you are family DOES NOT mean you can enter someone's private residence without their consent.I can see where they were upset and it's an invasion of privacy and a safety and security issue.I would take the high road and put emotion out of it.Good karma sometimes gets good karma back but bad karma will most certainly give you a confrontation and a bad outcome most of the time.

So far it looks as if the best price I can come up with for mailing one post card to my entire list is about $475, which comes out to about $.47 a post card.