Do you have any suggestions on what I could do with a potentially dead lead?

You'll likely need to disclose on the marketing that you're licensed and include some stock Fair Housing verbiage in the letter.

Perhaps, I've been watching way too much Walking Dead, but with the boarded up windows, I pictured zombies were about to bust through at any moment.

Jason - @Brian A. is dead-on - most banks are going to provide recourse loans - its in their risk-averse nature.

I can't speak for them personally, but Lowe's and HD appear to stock them...a quick google search will turn up a number of companies which make them.

I have spent the past 15 years grinding out various parts of my days, nights and weekends honing a stock market strategy that continues to evolve to this very day (minute).

Sitting quietly in the dark and taking stock of where we are is a lot harder - takes discipline.In music, we have notes and we have rests. 

Oh I remember where I heard this particular stock market cycle theory before, I just had to google "17.6 year stock cycle" looks like it has a lot of shelf life with many different prognosticators. 

Some call this diversification.Ranchinskiy Vasily: there are many private money banks/opportunities for investors to pool their money to lend to investors (whether they be real estate investors, stock market investors or business investors). 

However, for those of us who invest a long ways outside a major metropolitan area, such companies are nonexistent.Control is a major factor in our decision to invest in RE instead of stocks, mutual funds, etc.