Low and behold, our 500 letters to the same 500 individuals a month got the phone ringing.

About 20 minutes later someone rings the doorbell.

Just a quick question for you experience investors. How do you deal with sellers that you are not able to buy from.

When that property just doesn't fit your buying criteria, or there is no motivation from the...

An actively lead generating investor will get more leads than a licensee who sits at an office waiting for the phone to ring or their broker to feed them leads.

Hello all, My first mail campaign begins this weekend so hopefully the phone will start ringing shortly there after.

More than pretty much any of the other strategies, so just like with any marketing campaign you should know it's the marketers job to get your phones ringing, and nothing more.

(Great way to starting building a realtor-investor relationship)The bank makes the final decision regarding price after they order either a BPO or Appraisal or both depends on the lender.The short sale process takes usually takes 90-120 or longer days depending on the sellers cooperation and how fast the agent works with the bank submitting paperwork received from the seller but ive seen them go 6-12 months :(One warning really try and screen your seller to make sure there not using you the agent to just buy ore time in the property you must take there word on this but hopefully they have good intentions.The uglier the property for me personally I only love properties that look like the guy from lord of the rings (The Precious)Sorry for the lengthy reply just wanted to be thorough.Good luck!

Congrats, that is always exciting ( and nervous at the same time)  when the phone starts ringing and getting an appointment to check it out also, good job, hope it works out for you!

The phone is ringing and found a potential deal.  

As a friend of mine says "It's all a matter of how you frame it" .... and your angle rings true, and also makes us out to be the good guys, not the bad guys.