Many of the owners that I dealt with learned how to service the equipment themselves due service calls being so outrageously priced.As far as entry systems definitely consider a credit card / token acceptance.

What I do have is credit cards with no balance on them that I could get the cash out to use.

I would say become an investor first then worry about your card :)As a buy and hold it really depends on who your marketing your card too - I actually have several cards with different markets in mind and with different info on them.So who is going to get your card?

Does anyone have a good letter or post card template for shortsales?

I do direct mailings with a post card to NODs and it works pretty good.

I just think that if can devote more time to real estate investing ie.. wholesaling a make a deal a month ($5,000) I can pay off my credit card debt and do that consistently.

I read through this article and got to the end to see this:In May, President Barack Obama signed into law a consumer credit card act that also restored the rights of people to carry loaded weapons in national parks.lol!

If i wait around for someone with credit around here i might have an issue since the new rule is 10% of the credit card limit can only be used before it hurts your score so its putting people in a position where they cant qualify as easy.

A lot of people will blast out 1000 cards one day and wait for the phone to ring for the next month.

I did a 900 mailing and I have a stack of approx. 90 cards.