Advantages and disadvantages to Voicemail box

[Steffan Daus]

Hi there, I am a newer member here to Biggerpockets and I am doing a lot of research into Wholesaling. I am new to RE investing in general, but lack the $$ to really get started in buy and hold. I am looking at getting into Wholesaling because I think I can get in for the price I can afford to pay to get started. That being said besides my cash resources I have bigger questions about my time.

Currently I work a full time job that I can't leave to pursue this venture, especially with no guarantee of success. So the primary disadvantage of trying to work and wholesale at the same time is that I can't man my phone at all hours of the day. My solution is to use a voicemail box setup through Google voice.

I would like to have it set so that it gives my greeting basically saying that I will get back to them as fast as I can if they leave me their name, number, and reason they are calling. I figure this will also allow me to screen out the people that just want off of my advertising list.

Does anyone have some input as to how well this works? Do you have experience with it? What are the pros/cons?