You must be committed to CALLING THESE LEADS WITHIN 5 MINUTES or lose to your competition. 

My base of business is in Silicon Valley where there is lots of competition and high prices.

In a market where every mom and pop can pick up a small SFH on the east side without having a trust fund, there is a good amount of competition looking at the MLS.

I needed to see if someone answered my question, or if someone had a question I could answer.In real life, real estate is competitive.

I've asked hosts/owners before and they were hesitant to answer because they'll see you as competition.

As I'm sure you're finding out, competition is intense here and deals can be tough to find.

In addition, because we have the resources to scrape pricing/occupancy data of all major competitors in the area, we're able to track and identify occupancy trends before they happen and make competitive pricing decisions in real-time that increase over-all revenue/profitability for the owner. 

Continue mailing to them 5, 6, 7 times where your competition sends one piece of mail and never follows up.Best of luck bud.

There is probably less competition that are doing this.  

There are 3 primary problems with using Redfin. 1) They have no idea what they are doing..they often misprice properties, do not know how to compete in a competitive market. 2) Many people in the market place view properties as being listed by Redfin as being poorly maintained.