Michael Rae,Thanks for the encouragement, as it sounds like you agree 100% that probate leads are the best lead for a motivated seller.

This gets us a bigger prospective tenant pool and encourages longer tenancies.

I just want to encourage you to not put all your eggs in that single investors basket.

I come across a ton of different leadgen services and marketing platforms covering everything from helping you setup your Facebook seller listing campaign to automating your direct mail marketing.What other online tools and services are you using to help you in the real estate biz? 

He likes our screening criteria, though, and said he encourages his other owners to use it as well. 

Good words of encouragement Joshua McGinnis !

To encourage deadbeats and actually criminals is just more then I can stand.

At the time, I was not focused on expanding my portfolio but have recently changed gears and have invested into another with a partner of mine who encouraged me to check out Bigger Pockets.I have been quietly browsing the forums and soaking up the lessons learned.

He encouraged me to get started so a few months ago I started reading all the books I could.

I'd encourage you to go to YouTube and watch Steve Job's commencement address at Stanford.