Interesting comment and a suggestion from our RE agent

When we met with our agent the other day, she said she'd gotten a slew of faxes, letters and emails that were identical but from different people. She started laughing and said she was asking herself, "What book did they get this script out of?" then she'd toss them in the trash!

She said that was not the best way for a new investor to find an agent, by copying and pasting a script into a letter, email or fax.

So all of those people who did that lost her connection while investors who approached her using individual and more traditional methods won her over.

It also gave her the impression that 'somebody must have come out with a new program that they're touting about making money in real estate and now everyone wants to do it.'

Now, we have one awesome agent who's been working with investors for decades using the exact no-money-down methods that Dean teaches in his books. So she knows her stuff.

So just a suggestion for newbies -, using scripts out of a book or from the 'net is okay, but only if they're fine tuned and tweaked to not sound like a script. Otherwise, the agents you're sending them to will get the same impression - just another investor wannabe following what some RE guru said to do.

Your initial contact needs to sound natural, written like you would write it, not like a "form letter" that everyone else is using. Doing that won't help you and that's not the first impression you want to make.