Tony Marcelle I bought around 1/4 of my total units off the MLS and the rest were mainly from targeted direct mail and other ways of contacting the owners of off-market properties including cold-calling and Facebook messenger.

When he didn't like the price I quoted him he asked me to up the ante and call and garner their interest in selling and set appointments for him as well.

Hi Everyone,I'm hoping for some guidance b/c I've called several mortgage companies and haven't been able to receive helpful info. 

If that's the avenue you want to go, I'd call landlords with rentals that haven't been leased up yet.

I also state that per our Lease, Last Month's rent cannot be paid by the deposit.Well a day later, I get a call from the renter and he's furious that he cannot use the Deposit as rent and basically states that he'll be following his own process of will not be sending any rent and I can use the deposit for rent. 

Start calling all your local title companies and ask if they will do a closed doc assignment and if they will do a dry double close so you don't have to use transactional funds to close. 

See how the plumber responds to your call, and your gut will tell you how to proceed. 

Run the numbers of the comps, call the previous buyer and seller agents for those properties and ask them why they think the property came in at the value it did, and have that data ready to provide to the appraiser for the appointment.BUT -- don't make it seem like you're trying to tell the appraiser what the value is.

In regards to rentals, i took the last year and condensed my portfolio and sold off some rentals i had purchased before the recession that have been negative income for many many years now, so i am out of those positions with the equity at almost a break even, because i feel personally that the next few years the pricing movement isn't sustainable and its going to shake up the market again, idk if it could call for another recession, but i feel it needs some correction soon.Im very tempted to just hold my cash now for the rates to rise in hopes of the prices to settle down and instead of leveraging my next deal, that i would just flat out pay for it in cash, because then i dont have to worry about the high price of mortgage interest eating into my passive income, i know this is against most, but i feel like investors in my area just pulling bullcrap deals together and rehabbing them for nearly no profit, just to stay busy.

I've found calling to be better than mail in many cases.