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Hey John, thanks for becoming a contact.  I will pick up your book and see if it changes my views regarding wholesaling which are that it's a highly recommended strategy to get into the game with little or no money, but that's not exactly correct.   I did try wholesaling right from the start.  I did a direct mailing to targeted list of folks I received from a realtor.  It was a multi-thousand piece mailing (maybe around 2 thousand or more), and I received back a lot of "return to sender" mail.  I also generated about 2 or 3 calls.  One was from a person with a huge list of properties, but it turned out that he was a wholesale trying to wholesale to me so that would have been a double wholesale...no deal there.  The others were actual owners, but weren't good prospects because they had mixed feelings about what they wanted to do with the prop.  Long/short-wholesale does take some money, it takes a lot of time (prep. mailings, screen calls, visually check out props, etc.).  These factors made it difficult for me as a part-time REI.  So, my first actual jump into the REI water was buy and hold (landlording).  This suits my lifestyle better although it is definitely not a walk in the park on sunny, cool, breezy afternoon.  So, hopefully, your book may change my outlook on the wholesale strategy.  Thanks, again, I'm looking forward to following you.