Escrow here works by email/fax but they are very accommodating to with my many sellers that need the docs sent via regular mail or overnight.

The 3 to 5 years worth of payments benefit the buyer because after that period of time they will have been able to fix their credit, qualify for a loan and have a property that they have equity in already through a track record of regular payments.

If they are going to regularly be moving funds back and forth between currencies, they should probably open and FX account with a brokerage (which, up here, may be another branch of their Big-5 bank).  

Of course, there are regular buyers who don't really care what you make.If you're doing 4-5 deals a month, with a buyers list of 500, then you most likely don't want to be sending personal emails or texts.

(Lower-Income Area)SO, I'm trying to effectively calculate what I can offer for a cash buyer or a regular investor along with my assignment of contract fee included (let's hypothetically say 10K).So help me out here --Cash Buyer:+ 38,400 = Potential Gross Income (Rent a Year)- VARIABLE COST (Below)- 8% Vacancy- 5% Repair- 7% Property Management38,400 - 7,680 (20%)= $30,720- FIXED COST (Below)- 7,000 = Tax - 1,200 = Sewage a year- 2,000 = Insurance30,720 - 10,200 = $20,520 Yearly Cash Flow----------------------------------So based on that, what can I offer if a cash buyer wants 10% ROI and hypothetically I want a 10K assignment fee.

GregIf he is an employee of yours Workers comp is great protection for him AND you.His regular medical coverage will not pay for injury expenses.

The change in response may be a shift in the mindset of your target prospect avatar or a blip in the market.You ought to be testing new USP's against control pieces.No probate selling season, per se, other than regular real estate reasons.

Some owners, I need to talk to regularly regarding expenses and projects and some only call me when they see changes in revenue/vacancy etc.

question - did you do regular marketing by mail of yellow letters to the same addresses, or did you mix it up?

The area I live in never saw insane value increases, but, we are not seeing huge downfalls either, values are still going up on a regular basis.