I think is just about not giving up and tasting does first deals, keep your mind focus. you want a story when I was in college I taught I should get into real estate my parents, owned property and I taught could be good at selling it so it turned out I was a not that great after I became a agent took me like 9 Months to get my first deal in escrow and it fell threw finally I closed 1 deal only one in 14 months  and then I realize this wasn't for me so I started trying to put investors together and doing more of the numbers for Investors and that's how after college I became a Investment Analyst for a Private Equity firm,  by far the youngest in the firm, this was during the crash oh my things were busy and money was being made in the investment sector, buying tapes and building and I was creating 20-30 Analysis a day I was exhausted working 80+ hours per week, but the money was great and I started buying some properties of my own with my bonuses, so in 2014 I decided to leave my job, and move to San Diego and became a full time Investment Consultant at only 29 years old I own, several rentals in 4 states and help people with there Real estate Investments, large institutions  or just small first time investors. 

I see something happening in does suburban markets send me a PM i will happily share more with you also, @Jack T. also jack California, is a bit saturated, but San Diego inland and north markets are pretty solid, and have ok cash flows and to build long term wealth California is the best place by far. anything you sit on in california is gonna be worth a fortune in the future, is just the facts like manhattan. areas where the crash never affects as much, prices like in smaller market. that still haven't recovered. 

As far as direct mail it seems to me most foreclosures are due to upside down values from the housing bubble crash.

The more available data means that hopefully you are able to arrive at an accurate ARV.

How did you arrive at those figures?

I just did not know where to find another deal that made sense and the market was crashing (as we all know).

In 2008, the market crash forced the company to shut its doors.

At the start of my practice the market crashed and at the time I lacked a mentor or experience to broker my first deal.

I'm sure I can, but it would compromise the quality I can present to my guests when they arrive, which I am not ready to do.

Make no mistake, this would be a crash course in management.