We figure, know what your customer wants so you know what your looking for....from there itll be the marketing to absentee's with 10 plus years, free and clear owners, taking some drives up to the cleveland area and so on and so forth...I know our website isnt "top of the line" but it gets the message out there of what we do.

A lot of them in my market here get MLS properties under contract and then try to sell them at 20-25% margin and then their ARV and rehab numbers are completely unrealistic.IMO, the best way to make money is by making your customers' life easier and making them happy.

What I did was buy a roll of a 1,000 custom 5" x 3.5" stickers that read Avoid Foreclosure & Save Your Credit!

I don't know if putting a phantom ad out there would sit well with my potential clients and customers.

They’ll handle customer activation and connection services, maintenance, repairs and upgrades, Internet security protection and monitoring.2.

This is not normal as a rental, but a small market it still there.After the 2 year mark, I would likely be looking to sell as this home would not be within my cash flow strategy.As a side note, the international customer can not gain permenant residence, so they are forced to rent by the terms of their work visa.

They are your customers.

Most people get answers to their questions or customer service issues within minutes to hours of asking.

Over the years I have pumped hundreds of thousands of dollars through the doors at Lowes and the manager knows me, and I was never a big contractor, just a long term customer.

I use a customized spread sheet which allows me to calculate the difference between cost of Short Sale vs Cost of Short Sale... with the average time to foreclose now well over 500 days, the biggest fear of the lender is to tie up the property for a year and a half in default... the SS is best way for getting around the time suck, and government interference...Take advantage of the tension between the servicer and investor...