If the seller has a house that needs repairs (so it will not pass a retail inspection) and no money to make those repairs, they are more likely to consider the option of selling for cash to an investor.In your marketing, stress these 3 points in your messaging:1) FAST2) CASH3) AS-ISThere are many words you might use to say those things, but those 3 points are what gets the right people to connect with you and see if you can solve their problem.Hope that helps.  

Investing in low income areas (where properties are super cheap) can be very profitable, but you will work a lot harder, and deal with more stress, and the deal will never be quite as good as it looked on paper.

I ended up with a bit more CC debt than I expected paying for our wedding last November, combine that with having our first baby this coming July, my cash flow is a bit jacked up.

What he meant was, don't stress over getting an awesome deal that just doesn't seem to be working. 

I hope eliminating the odors proves to be a cheap and stress free task for you!

@Boyd Evans welcome to the site, BP has a tremendous amount of information to help youI'm a local investor in the New Hampshire and would be more then happy to help you out with any questions you havewe have network meeting at Nashua on the 3rd Wed of the month and it great place to meet with others real estate investor and we have numbers of deals done after people meet in our group, you can find more HereLook forward to seeing you around!

And what you can and can't filter from each lead source inclluding find motivated sellers now, which I've got a life time sub to, listsource and others.Tersely a direct marketing lead must:- target high stress for the seller.- stress includes divorce, late taxes, landlord is evicting (again), code enforcement, vacantHow must stress is needed to turn an address you mail into a deal?  

The Chester county and Montgomery county sub-group meets the 2nd Wed of the month.Let @Steve Babiak know if you are interested - he is a co-chair of the subgroup.

Buying your first home is as much stress as you possibly go through.

I can't stress this enough.I guess people are going to believe what they believe; I'm trying to help not hurt.