Give an investor good information on a property and why it would be a good investment, and we will look at it more intently, otherwise it is just another number and might be by-passed.It takes literally minutes to do some comps, give comps! 

take your business cards/flyers into Starbucks, stores in shopping malls, literally anywhere that generates a lot of foot traffic.

The lessens here for the readers is take note, you are literally buying a file that needs to have stuff in it.  

But any property that only brings in $350/month in rent is literally going to be the bottom of the barrel.

Chris,I had to literally ask the agent for information on the property on more that one occasion.  

The place had some ongoing problems we were aware of and when it emptied we dug in (literally dug a 5 foot hole in the 2 foot crawl space) and fixed the problem, and I had set aside money just for that. 

She started crying and thanked me.This is my business and I take it very seriously, but the lady has kids, and she would literally be thrown on the street if we hadn't come to the agreement.

Unless the tub is one of those re-finished fancy clawfoot tubs, then that's different.Something I've been seeing a lot of lately is literally a walk-in shower with no door - like in a lot of places in Europe.

She then said "Can you go online and ask someone" (She is not computer literate). 

I literally called the seller every week until I finally got the property under contract.