I am from Canada and we do things a little bit different on our igloos up here but typically when I get the ice patch done come spring melt I trade a few really good fish that I get from the Inuits to our local builder!

I would call on a potential customer abut once a month. give them a year before I would move on. that is 12 calls, I would get a chance to know them. give them a chance to know me and  usually with my "Charm and Swagger"  LOL they would eventually melt. 

now that the honey moon period is over  IE post GFC  08 to 2011 melt down and RE has start to balance out.. back to what was in my day a normal market  IE deals had to be gotten not just plucked off the treeswhat are you doing to adjust to the new times...

In my area 1000 yellow letters per month would melt your phone. 

@Roy @Roy MitleIf you have been investing or involved in real estate before and after the melt down that the economy suffered, then you know banks can change.  

As a RE investor I have no problem with inflation, I actually welcome it as real estate prices appreciate, rents go up and my debt melts away.

Has the snow melted up there yet?

You are thinking this is a problem with a leak with freshwater but this time of year basements often flood because of spring rains/snow melting etc....so could be coming in the from walls, up from the drain tile, not likely to be coming from the sewer if it isn't sewer water but that can't be ruled out either. 

We had a guest who thought the fridge was failing as everything was melting.

Not too much snow on the sea coast, some but if melts pretty quickly.