It is highly time and energy intensive process to find leads and work those leads into deals... because you have to start from scratch sending out let's say 2000 letters, receiving 20 calls, then negotiating those to get 2 deals. 

If you send a letter out to each new bride good luck to the manager.

Out of those 1300 we hand wrote letters to 500 properties.

Best practice, IMO, is to have a RMLO make a determination of an exemption and squeeze that letter of opinion, attaching it to the note and buy the RMLO lunch, an honest one shouldn't hold you up for an opinion!

When looking for sellers, try talking to FSBOs, people who have recently received a 'notice of default' letter, people near the end of their redemption period, and/or people who have just been divorced.

Yellow letters take a bunch of mailings too but probate seem to narrow it down considerately.

If there is too much on the sign or letters are too small then it's near impossible to read from any distance.

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From the letter (addressed specifically to the family member) they could sell the note, receive cash, and we (the property owner) would simply send the mortgage payment to a different address (with no change in the terms of the note). 

I've used list providers to pull cash buyer lists for my specific zip codes and send out letters of introduction (keep it simple).