They do door knocks, inspections and property preservation, but they do not do valuations.

Have you considered going door to door knocking to the areas where you are sending out mailers  or other areas near your residence or buying a list of quality leads through a reputable source?

I can buy 1 house for every 100-200 calls.BONUSI haven't done this personally but I've heard from other investors that knocking on the door with a business card results in 1 house for every 20-40 doors.

People are door knocking and mailing NEDs so the properties with equity get bought before the sale. 

Everything is finally in order and now I want to run at least 1 campaign before the big day to get the ball rolling again and possibly knock down a couple nice deals to help foot the budget :-)Anyways to the topic at hand...We have always used Yellow Letters . com to handle our marketing and so far the response has been about 2-3% - majority seem to be "tire kickers," so we are considering a little different approach.  

I will go out there to knock some doors.

The next day, I went knocking on each of the tenants door notifying them I was the new owner and giving them a 60-day notice for an increase in rent.

I am expecting to knock some rent off for him to fix the roof, he is in construction and does work himself and we had previously discussed him handling things that come up himself.

In many of the Philly neighborhoods residents are being saturated with mailing, calls, and even knocks on doors offering to 'buy your home.'