And secondly, I just don't see the romance in it.

My advice is to believe in yourself, your solution, and be very authentic to the person on the phone.This will make your success rate much higher than any script ever could.I see you have some passion inside by your tone in the thread, now channel that energy into as many phone calls a day as you can make, and success will follow!

FWIW, I *despise* ringless voicemails with the passion of 1,000 burning suns. 

I want to flip because I am passionate about it and really want to do it.

I have graduated with a degree in accounting, but my passion is in real estate.

Absolutely...Mike has been gone for a while...I think I heard that he was focused on some political undertakings (in a good way)...don't know if it's working on political campaigns or something else, but I know that it was a passion of his...

I have always had a passion for residential home design and construction and currently work full time as a construction manager for a builder in the DC metro area.

Brooklyn Broker here; good luck on your new passion.

I hate traditional real estate sales with a passion.

In 5 years or so, I'd like to be able to see my income from real estate eclipse what I make in software development, so that I can either get further into real estate, or go back to software startups that I'm passionate about.At this moment, I've probably not got too much to offer in real estate knowledge, but I've been the CTO at a few of my startups, so if you have any questions on how technology could be brought to bear on a real estate problem, I'm your guy.