We found it very successful to do direct marketing along with cold calling.  

If so, how many, how long, and what are the covenants for qualifying for the extensions?

They haven't emailed or called me back yet.I just also called Doug Michie in Ventura but got an answering machine so I left voice mail asking him about this as well.Hopefully, they will contact me next week.

Try being an agent, your phone number is EVERYWHERE and you get targeted by a whole industry that wants to sell you the latest gimmick.Here is what helped me.I answer calls and when it's a telemarketer I will interrupt them and say very friendly (because I don't hate the poor person who gets paid to do this and coached to be ruthless): Hey, so glad you called, can you do me a big favor? 

so I can officially know about the dog, licenses, shots, etc.Thanks.

Plus we had the money to pay one off if it got called and we did have a few get called ..

So I decided to sell and move on. 

Probably every dialer company has lists they can sell you.I think it is better to call yourself vs using cold callers. 

You could check out a book by Dave Van Horn called Real Estate Note Investing.

One of their so called instructors from one of the training sessions asks the students to go to the five star hotels, or go play golf, or go horse riding, or go hang out at the high end night clubs for the sake of fund raising.