I am doing some direct mail marketing in IE, LA county, Riverside county and OC county. 

Another reason to send it by mail is in many cases you will be deducting damages from deposit.  

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Yes, sometimes there is big buys or whatever and a bit of a balance is carried but I NEVER, N-E-V-E-R get cozy with carrying a balance, paying at minimum or holding a financed balance for 90 days or more.

Once you've been preapproved, you can find an investor-focused agent in your market that will set you up with an email list of properties that match your criteria. 

I feel like a complete idiot, as I am not a newbie at all but had recently moved to Illinois, and most of the usual lenders I use do not lend here.The broker will now not respond to any calls, texts or emails.

I go inside and read my email and I have 2 emails with deliveries with a total of 3 packages.  

Next up I would give AirBNB a call or send an email and ask them about it.

There are several options for skip tracing to find phone numbers and email addresses.

First, don't use REI Reply, it's just a white-labelled/private-agency version of GoHighLevel (the actual provider of the CRM) that they just mark up and charge you extra for everything you do (every text, email, etc is 2-10x more expensive than just linking twilio/mailgun to your GHL account, etc).With that out of the way, you can get to making workflows.