There are 4 goals for me on that initial call:1) Identify motivation2) Build rapport3) Understand extent of repairs4) Get a priceAfter gathering this info, I will do a quick analysis and get back to them with my ball park price.  

Another fun analogy, bandit signs is like chumming the waters for tuna.Direct mailing is putting the right bait on the right hook for the daylight, winds, water temperature, etc. to get a fish on the line.

I usually make sure they are people I'm willing to rent to before I show them the house, so the ball is always in their court on the day of showing.  

I'm a 1099 employee, I have a LLC can't get approved for a loan right now, was looking more for a hard money lender type just to get the ball up and rolling I'm staying near Glens falls right now  but I do most of my work in MA and found a lot of foreclosures that need work and I have a contractor over there.I just join this today so I'll do some more research.Thanks for the feedback 

I am not talking about low balling just for the sake of it.  

What's my expected cost ball park?

Being a real estate agent is not something you can approach casually and hope to start receiving "capital" if you actually want to make money you have to go balls to the wall and create a full blown business (which is what I'm doing right now, actually still waiting to take my RE test, this is just what I've observed).

Almost like they wanted it to go that way.Although I tracked 3-4 deals that I thought were good and all of them ended up in the ball park of what I had originally thought. 40-50k profit after everything was all said and done.

Hey BP, I have been listening to the podcast for a while but new to the forums.I am from the hard-working east side of H-Town and I am ready to get the ball rolling. 

I want to get the ball rolling and start buying properties, just seems like there is no quick way to do it.