Some methods may have fewer return, but it only takes one to make it worth it.Think of it as an investment in you and your business.My first property, I invested in a $35 program, and about $100 for letters on letterhead, stamps, business cards, etc...

There is typically a fee for each inspection and each draw, so fewer will save you money.

Even if there is not a bust, the damage has already been done to the psychology of the consumer.

In the mean time, that vacant house will be scrapped, vandalized and possibly set on fire by a squatter crackhead.So you have a small chance of that 5th house producing income someday, and a very large chance that the house will consume cash to maintain and require tens of thousands of dollars in rehab to undo the damage done to it.There are thousands and thousands of houses in Detroit like this 5th house.

If your household income is $520k, you are in the top 1%.According to the Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances, a net worth of $416k puts you in the top 20% of American households.

Your health will be better and you will get fewer lines in your face.Consider this, there is a high probability that more experienced investors were shown this same investment opportunity and turned it down.

Just seems like this latter list of options would be much more time-consuming than actually calling property owners who have already posted their property for sale.

There are fewer builders building new homes now, so that makes the existing homes more valuable.

I used to have a general practice (family, criminal, civil) but I have limited it since 2008 to consumer debtor bankruptcy cases.

Patricia,Everyone in 2008 can think DR Horton homes and the banks for the homes the consumers bought when the bank was financing any three-legged dog that could write and then DR Horton was giving $10K to $20K back to the home buyers.