Tara There are no motivated sellers in Chicago.just ask your competitors, but in case you find one make sure one of your must do activities has been building a buyers list..The others have given you some good ideas, pick one and combine it with the driving for dollars activity. such as driving by the absentee owners properties and seeing whats going on, check the street for other prospective properties and hit the neighbors for info as well as asking if anyone they know of has mentioned maybe buying or selling..Call on for sale/rent/sold signs and get the info, and as you learn the area ideas will come to you for doing it better as you do itplus as Alex suggested go to the www.click2mail.com site and see what they offer you...

There is also a house right across the street on the mkt. for 149.5k that is a flipper (pretty much only cosmetics/updated kitchen per an online virtual tour.)

Check the neighborhood , check the street and walk around the property.

I took about 6 addresses down on the street and found out 2/3 of them were last sold in 2001 ranging from $60K to $80K.

Now I'm on an entrance street into the same subdivision, the "upper-class" section of it.

He came from wall Street I have never took the time to see if he made money back then

And I'm not liberal, I just knew that the NeoCons sucked big time.I actually believed Obama would restore our rights, end the occupations of the middle east, and do something to clean up DC from all the Wall Street lobbyists.

I understand Fear is a big obstacle, but I figure if I can lead men and women through the streets of Baghdad I may be able to motivate a few here in the states.

When I watch a movie like Wall Street, I cannot understand half the terms they are talking about, and I really want to.

I simply understand and recognize a certain "street" mentality with regard to a way of "doing business".