We reach out at multiple times throughout the redemption period, all the way to the end.Part of me is beginning to think that foreclosure is such a touchy subject to many people, that many would rather just ignore taking any action, and just let the property go, even though our "cash for keys" and offers to list their properties give them a chance to make something good out of a bad situation.Conversely,  somewhat seasoned marketer in me wants to stay the course, and keep altering our message until we improve our response rates; after-all, people have been successfully marketing to people in foreclosure and pre-foreclosure for years, which makes me think there is hope to ramp-up response rates.Sorry for all the text, I'm thinking out loud a bit here.Has anyone had any success marketing to mortgagors during the redemption period?  

My objective is to move the building in the other direction with improvements and rent increases to get higher quality tenants.    

My goal is to work no more than 40 hours/week at my normal job and still be able to provide for my young family.

This will be helpful for me to keep my day job(Junk Removal).

I'm still working a full time job! 

3 BR/1 bath asking $170k.Taxes are $9,062 (although I saw at least one other figure on a different website, I went with the highest)Here are my assumptions:closing costs - $4,000rehab/initial improvements - $5,000 (this is a blind guess because there are no pictures of the inside available, but let's not focus on this number right now...)Rent - $2,000vacancy - 8% ($160/month)property management - 8% (the calculator I used (downloaded from BP) uses net rental income for this, so it's about $147.16/month)maintenance - $1,000/yearcapex - $160/monthinsurance - $1,000/yearwith a 25% down payment and 4.5% thirty year financing for the balance, I net a whopping -.82%.  

Forget about the fantasy of foolish people thinking they should enjoy their job.

You need you buy and renovate, maybe turn a SFR in to a duplex, something, which will improve the living density.

The listing agent's job is to get as much possible for the home as they can manage.

I understand I should have checked the payment to go through too, if not raise a flag and give them a call, but that would mean I'm doing the property manager's job and by  the way they answer their phone I'm sure we would be in this situation anyways.