Definitely fulfillment - anything that involves physical labor or administrative work I exclusively farm out in every situation.Re: mail piece - the #1 rule is that you need to have whatever mail piece you are sending have the leads name and address on the front of card.

It is maybe half price of sending postcards but it isn't personalized and sometimes gets stuffed into those newspaper looking coupon pages that are always in the mail. 

I have not seen them, but I have seen evidence like recent newspapers and gas station sandwiches with recent "best buy" dates.I did e-mail the city about this and they said they would have an inspector go to the location to secure the property and make sure they cannot get in.

Does that mean when you sell your primary someday you won't be eligible for the 121 tax exclusion on any gain?

Well  turns out in Oregon there are two zones  one EFU ( Exclusive Farm Use) and TBZ ( exclusive timber use)  160 acre minimum to build one home... 

Options include driving for dollars, absentee, probate, using listsource if you're not in a competitive market, buying lists that are exclusive for your market type (we partnered with a guy that does this) 3) Start a sustained direct mail campaign.

Do you want to go after only duds that no one wants and deal exclusively with homeowners with unreasonable expectations of their property value?

When you pick the right rental properties and property management to do the actual work,your personal location is irrelevant.I know many investors who live in California and invest exclusively in Ohio,Indiana,and Tennessee multi-family properties and never even meet the tenants or deal with any of the headaches that they can bring on.Some are retired and travel full time in RVs and boats and never have a permanent home.

I work exclusively with investors and focus mostly on multi family.  

I have also never seen an auction posting in the Advertiser in the many years I have been looking in the foreclosures section of the newspaper.