In my experience agents do not like to communicate the lease option offer because they will not get paid as quickly.

But while we are investing in real estate, and trying to get the education needed to even get better for sake of improving our lives for the better, there is always that person or company that comes along with latest gizmos and gadgets that claims they can help us improve in your real estate investing business. to help us become more efficient and do more deals only to find that at the end you have wasted your money. believe me tried a some of them, and it really gets to me when they don't deliver on there promises. and i know some people on these forums are always looking for software or programs to help them improve in their real estate business. well i am too!

Why not try getting in touch with the one who left the state to see if they can get the remaining non-communicative one to contact you.

I am ramping up my mailing campaign and looking for a more time efficient way to generate my yellow letters.

So, it makes financial sense for me to indulge these requests.However, I need to prioritize my time, as efficiently as possible.

Using Google Maps, Google Earth or any other version or combination of versions of free software out there, how can someone create a professional-looking site map to be used as a marketing exhibit showing a site:1) with the 1-3-5 miles rings around it, and2) showing the company logos of nearby, nationally recognized companies by importing said logos into the map and pasting them on top of the locations of those businesses, and3) inserting text blocks where, for instance, one could depict traffic counts of the frontage road by inserting the text block with the desired text into the map and pasting it on top of the road(s).Again, I want to do this all quickly, efficiently, professionally and for free.Can anyone suggest a process or software or make any recommendations?

It is more time efficient to do everything at one time.

I don't necessarily try to be the absolute most efficient, with setting up a schedule and a budget and a dead-line and all of that.

Communication with the lender prior to purchase is very important.

But here's the problem: they all concern historical buildings (I invest in Europe, ancient cities like Maastricht and Liège).These will require a lot of renovations to get them up to speed with the new EU energy-efficient requirements and such.