After losing hours and hours folding, the idea of outsourcing sounds really great (folding machines are expensive!). 

We will run a high touch campaign (18 touches) over 12 months with the ambition of being the seller's first call when they do decide to sell.Since we are long term buy/hold of larger multifamily properties, we can afford to be targeted, patient and play the timing game with sellers who are on average older and have held for a long time already.We are not creating a marketing machine to churn out wholesale flip deals; we aren't on that treadmill.

@Jay Hinrichs please dont tell us you have a typewriter or fax machine too.

Hi John,You can let it ring until you get a voicemail/answering machine, but leaving a message really depends on your followup strategy.  

Usually with just one phone call.That pretty much makes my entire marketing machine self sustainable.

Wholesalers who've built a good business and want to move up can let their machine run so they can utilize their own marketing efforts.

Sign that the "machine" wants the market to go on.

For example, in a case like this, I would: 1) make sure all new tenants complete a "Rental Move-In Checklist" with a section that specifically addresses the condition of the bathroom/kitchen sink, toilets, etc; and 2)  include the following clause in my lease:"LANDLORD WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR DRAIN BLOCKAGES AND BACKUPS IN THE KITCHEN SINK, GARBAGE DISPOSAL, DISHWASHER, WASHER MACHINE, TOILET, BATHROOM SINK AND BATHTUB CAUSED BY GREASE, PAPER, FOOD, HAIR, OR ANY OTHER FOREIGN OBJECTS.

Their last official response was that they could put laundry machines in the basement so "I could make some income from the space that way!".

I am a big fan of laundry rooms, vending machine rooms, and storage go far.