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		<description><![CDATA[Today wraps up the end of day one of the Yellow Letter campaign.  I received 30 calls in total.  That&#8217;s already a 3.75% response rate.  However, there are only two leads (one warm and the other is semi-warm).  This technique is reported to yield a 10 to 15% response rate, so that means I should [...]]]></description>
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<p>Today wraps up the end of day one of the Yellow Letter campaign.  I received 30 calls in total.  That&#8217;s already a 3.75% response rate.  However, there are only two leads (one warm and the other is semi-warm).  This technique is reported to yield a 10 to 15% response rate, so that means I should have another 50 responses or so.  Hopefully, I&#8217;ll get some more leads.  I could care less about responses.<a href="http://easycaptures.com/3537176983"></a></p>
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<p>Which brings me to my next topic.  I have about 7 voicemail messages that are utterly ridiculous.  These messages were left when my Realtor was occupied with other calls or after 6pm.  And I mean they are pure comedy!  I bet the callers would be infuriated more if they could hear me laughing when listening to their messages.  I&#8217;m choosing the top two to share for your listening pleasure.  I worked on my six-pack by listening to these.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.justinmcclelland.com/audio/idiot.wav"><br />
<img style="border: 0pt none;" src="http://www.justinmcclelland.com/images/audio.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="73" height="73" /></a>&#8220;Like I didn&#8217;t already know this&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.justinmcclelland.com/audio/500k.wav"><br />
<img style="border: 0pt none;" src="http://www.justinmcclelland.com/images/audio.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="73" height="73" /></a>&#8220;I&#8217;m really tempted on this one&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>The last message really inspires me to make an offer.  He wouldn&#8217;t have received a letter if he had a house with a tax assessed value over $150K, in-case you couldn&#8217;t smell the sarcasm.</p>
<p>Perhaps I&#8217;ll FedEx this guy an offer tomorrow.  The offer would be an option to buy his house in 2 days for $500k.  I&#8217;ll include a $100,000 option-consideration check, however there would be an inspection contingency.  He must have heated marble floors throughout, even in the garage!  I would definitely do this if I could hide in the bushes and secretly video tape his reaction when he read the offer.  That would be sooo worth it!  You don&#8217;t even know!</p>
<p>I mean seriously&#8230;there were many people who called and spoke to my Realtor or left a message pissed-off that I mailed them about buying their house.  If you didn&#8217;t care, don&#8217;t pick up the phone and waste your breath and my time.  Some people just have way too much free time on their hands and want something to have an opinion about.  Some of these messages remind me of the Family Guy episode with the lonely old widow cut-away.  A few of these ladies got my letter today for sure and called in.</p>
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<p>Seriously, these people just don&#8217;t know I was making it rain with their letters hours before I sent them.  Kick rocks!  I&#8217;m out.</p>
<p>P.S.<br />
If my CraigsList ad gets flagged one more time, I&#8217;m whoopin some ass!</p>
<p>- Justin</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[I stamped all of my letters today and sent them out.  Turns out I only had 800 letters and not 900 like I had thought.  Don&#8217;t know where the math went wrong on that one.  Or perhaps I skipped printing 100 when I was printing them out.  Damn, I&#8217;m craving sushi and king crab legs [...]]]></description>
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<p>Today wraps up the end of day one of the Yellow Letter campaign.  I received 30 calls in total.  That&#8217;s already a 3.75% response rate.  However, there are only two leads (one warm and the other is semi-warm).  This technique is reported to yield a 10 to 15% response rate, so that means I should have another 50 responses or so.  Hopefully, I&#8217;ll get some more leads.  I could care less about responses.<a href="http://easycaptures.com/3537176983"></a></p>
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<p>Which brings me to my next topic.  I have about 7 voicemail messages that are utterly ridiculous.  These messages were left when my Realtor was occupied with other calls or after 6pm.  And I mean they are pure comedy!  I bet the callers would be infuriated more if they could hear me laughing when listening to their messages.  I&#8217;m choosing the top two to share for your listening pleasure.  I worked on my six-pack by listening to these.</p>
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<img style="border: 0pt none;" src="http://www.justinmcclelland.com/images/audio.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="73" height="73" /></a>&#8220;Like I didn&#8217;t already know this&#8221;</p>
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<img style="border: 0pt none;" src="http://www.justinmcclelland.com/images/audio.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="73" height="73" /></a>&#8220;I&#8217;m really tempted on this one&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>The last message really inspires me to make an offer.  He wouldn&#8217;t have received a letter if he had a house with a tax assessed value over $150K, in-case you couldn&#8217;t smell the sarcasm.</p>
<p>Perhaps I&#8217;ll FedEx this guy an offer tomorrow.  The offer would be an option to buy his house in 2 days for $500k.  I&#8217;ll include a $100,000 option-consideration check, however there would be an inspection contingency.  He must have heated marble floors throughout, even in the garage!  I would definitely do this if I could hide in the bushes and secretly video tape his reaction when he read the offer.  That would be sooo worth it!  You don&#8217;t even know!</p>
<p>I mean seriously&#8230;there were many people who called and spoke to my Realtor or left a message pissed-off that I mailed them about buying their house.  If you didn&#8217;t care, don&#8217;t pick up the phone and waste your breath and my time.  Some people just have way too much free time on their hands and want something to have an opinion about.  Some of these messages remind me of the Family Guy episode with the lonely old widow cut-away.  A few of these ladies got my letter today for sure and called in.</p>
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<p>Seriously, these people just don&#8217;t know I was making it rain with their letters hours before I sent them.  Kick rocks!  I&#8217;m out.</p>
<p>P.S.<br />
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<p>- Justin</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Man, I have been slacking completely on my blogging. I&#8217;m back on it though. I haven&#8217;t posted any &#8216;Accountability Tuesday&#8217; updates lately because as I mentioned, I wasn&#8217;t going to do so until I completed the launch of my direct mail campaign. It&#8217;s still not launched yet. I&#8217;m very close however, as I have the [...]]]></description>
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<p>Today wraps up the end of day one of the Yellow Letter campaign.  I received 30 calls in total.  That&#8217;s already a 3.75% response rate.  However, there are only two leads (one warm and the other is semi-warm).  This technique is reported to yield a 10 to 15% response rate, so that means I should have another 50 responses or so.  Hopefully, I&#8217;ll get some more leads.  I could care less about responses.<a href="http://easycaptures.com/3537176983"></a></p>
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<p>Which brings me to my next topic.  I have about 7 voicemail messages that are utterly ridiculous.  These messages were left when my Realtor was occupied with other calls or after 6pm.  And I mean they are pure comedy!  I bet the callers would be infuriated more if they could hear me laughing when listening to their messages.  I&#8217;m choosing the top two to share for your listening pleasure.  I worked on my six-pack by listening to these.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.justinmcclelland.com/audio/idiot.wav"><br />
<img style="border: 0pt none;" src="http://www.justinmcclelland.com/images/audio.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="73" height="73" /></a>&#8220;Like I didn&#8217;t already know this&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.justinmcclelland.com/audio/500k.wav"><br />
<img style="border: 0pt none;" src="http://www.justinmcclelland.com/images/audio.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="73" height="73" /></a>&#8220;I&#8217;m really tempted on this one&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>The last message really inspires me to make an offer.  He wouldn&#8217;t have received a letter if he had a house with a tax assessed value over $150K, in-case you couldn&#8217;t smell the sarcasm.</p>
<p>Perhaps I&#8217;ll FedEx this guy an offer tomorrow.  The offer would be an option to buy his house in 2 days for $500k.  I&#8217;ll include a $100,000 option-consideration check, however there would be an inspection contingency.  He must have heated marble floors throughout, even in the garage!  I would definitely do this if I could hide in the bushes and secretly video tape his reaction when he read the offer.  That would be sooo worth it!  You don&#8217;t even know!</p>
<p>I mean seriously&#8230;there were many people who called and spoke to my Realtor or left a message pissed-off that I mailed them about buying their house.  If you didn&#8217;t care, don&#8217;t pick up the phone and waste your breath and my time.  Some people just have way too much free time on their hands and want something to have an opinion about.  Some of these messages remind me of the Family Guy episode with the lonely old widow cut-away.  A few of these ladies got my letter today for sure and called in.</p>
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<p>Seriously, these people just don&#8217;t know I was making it rain with their letters hours before I sent them.  Kick rocks!  I&#8217;m out.</p>
<p>P.S.<br />
If my CraigsList ad gets flagged one more time, I&#8217;m whoopin some ass!</p>
<p>- Justin</p>
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<p>Today wraps up the end of day one of the Yellow Letter campaign.  I received 30 calls in total.  That&#8217;s already a 3.75% response rate.  However, there are only two leads (one warm and the other is semi-warm).  This technique is reported to yield a 10 to 15% response rate, so that means I should have another 50 responses or so.  Hopefully, I&#8217;ll get some more leads.  I could care less about responses.<a href="http://easycaptures.com/3537176983"></a></p>
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<p>Which brings me to my next topic.  I have about 7 voicemail messages that are utterly ridiculous.  These messages were left when my Realtor was occupied with other calls or after 6pm.  And I mean they are pure comedy!  I bet the callers would be infuriated more if they could hear me laughing when listening to their messages.  I&#8217;m choosing the top two to share for your listening pleasure.  I worked on my six-pack by listening to these.</p>
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<img style="border: 0pt none;" src="http://www.justinmcclelland.com/images/audio.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="73" height="73" /></a>&#8220;Like I didn&#8217;t already know this&#8221;</p>
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<img style="border: 0pt none;" src="http://www.justinmcclelland.com/images/audio.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="73" height="73" /></a>&#8220;I&#8217;m really tempted on this one&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>The last message really inspires me to make an offer.  He wouldn&#8217;t have received a letter if he had a house with a tax assessed value over $150K, in-case you couldn&#8217;t smell the sarcasm.</p>
<p>Perhaps I&#8217;ll FedEx this guy an offer tomorrow.  The offer would be an option to buy his house in 2 days for $500k.  I&#8217;ll include a $100,000 option-consideration check, however there would be an inspection contingency.  He must have heated marble floors throughout, even in the garage!  I would definitely do this if I could hide in the bushes and secretly video tape his reaction when he read the offer.  That would be sooo worth it!  You don&#8217;t even know!</p>
<p>I mean seriously&#8230;there were many people who called and spoke to my Realtor or left a message pissed-off that I mailed them about buying their house.  If you didn&#8217;t care, don&#8217;t pick up the phone and waste your breath and my time.  Some people just have way too much free time on their hands and want something to have an opinion about.  Some of these messages remind me of the Family Guy episode with the lonely old widow cut-away.  A few of these ladies got my letter today for sure and called in.</p>
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<p>Seriously, these people just don&#8217;t know I was making it rain with their letters hours before I sent them.  Kick rocks!  I&#8217;m out.</p>
<p>P.S.<br />
If my CraigsList ad gets flagged one more time, I&#8217;m whoopin some ass!</p>
<p>- Justin</p>
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<p>Today wraps up the end of day one of the Yellow Letter campaign.  I received 30 calls in total.  That&#8217;s already a 3.75% response rate.  However, there are only two leads (one warm and the other is semi-warm).  This technique is reported to yield a 10 to 15% response rate, so that means I should have another 50 responses or so.  Hopefully, I&#8217;ll get some more leads.  I could care less about responses.<a href="http://easycaptures.com/3537176983"></a></p>
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<p>Which brings me to my next topic.  I have about 7 voicemail messages that are utterly ridiculous.  These messages were left when my Realtor was occupied with other calls or after 6pm.  And I mean they are pure comedy!  I bet the callers would be infuriated more if they could hear me laughing when listening to their messages.  I&#8217;m choosing the top two to share for your listening pleasure.  I worked on my six-pack by listening to these.</p>
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<img style="border: 0pt none;" src="http://www.justinmcclelland.com/images/audio.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="73" height="73" /></a>&#8220;Like I didn&#8217;t already know this&#8221;</p>
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<img style="border: 0pt none;" src="http://www.justinmcclelland.com/images/audio.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="73" height="73" /></a>&#8220;I&#8217;m really tempted on this one&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>The last message really inspires me to make an offer.  He wouldn&#8217;t have received a letter if he had a house with a tax assessed value over $150K, in-case you couldn&#8217;t smell the sarcasm.</p>
<p>Perhaps I&#8217;ll FedEx this guy an offer tomorrow.  The offer would be an option to buy his house in 2 days for $500k.  I&#8217;ll include a $100,000 option-consideration check, however there would be an inspection contingency.  He must have heated marble floors throughout, even in the garage!  I would definitely do this if I could hide in the bushes and secretly video tape his reaction when he read the offer.  That would be sooo worth it!  You don&#8217;t even know!</p>
<p>I mean seriously&#8230;there were many people who called and spoke to my Realtor or left a message pissed-off that I mailed them about buying their house.  If you didn&#8217;t care, don&#8217;t pick up the phone and waste your breath and my time.  Some people just have way too much free time on their hands and want something to have an opinion about.  Some of these messages remind me of the Family Guy episode with the lonely old widow cut-away.  A few of these ladies got my letter today for sure and called in.</p>
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<p>Seriously, these people just don&#8217;t know I was making it rain with their letters hours before I sent them.  Kick rocks!  I&#8217;m out.</p>
<p>P.S.<br />
If my CraigsList ad gets flagged one more time, I&#8217;m whoopin some ass!</p>
<p>- Justin</p>
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<p>Today wraps up the end of day one of the Yellow Letter campaign.  I received 30 calls in total.  That&#8217;s already a 3.75% response rate.  However, there are only two leads (one warm and the other is semi-warm).  This technique is reported to yield a 10 to 15% response rate, so that means I should have another 50 responses or so.  Hopefully, I&#8217;ll get some more leads.  I could care less about responses.<a href="http://easycaptures.com/3537176983"></a></p>
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<p>Which brings me to my next topic.  I have about 7 voicemail messages that are utterly ridiculous.  These messages were left when my Realtor was occupied with other calls or after 6pm.  And I mean they are pure comedy!  I bet the callers would be infuriated more if they could hear me laughing when listening to their messages.  I&#8217;m choosing the top two to share for your listening pleasure.  I worked on my six-pack by listening to these.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.justinmcclelland.com/audio/idiot.wav"><br />
<img style="border: 0pt none;" src="http://www.justinmcclelland.com/images/audio.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="73" height="73" /></a>&#8220;Like I didn&#8217;t already know this&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.justinmcclelland.com/audio/500k.wav"><br />
<img style="border: 0pt none;" src="http://www.justinmcclelland.com/images/audio.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="73" height="73" /></a>&#8220;I&#8217;m really tempted on this one&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>The last message really inspires me to make an offer.  He wouldn&#8217;t have received a letter if he had a house with a tax assessed value over $150K, in-case you couldn&#8217;t smell the sarcasm.</p>
<p>Perhaps I&#8217;ll FedEx this guy an offer tomorrow.  The offer would be an option to buy his house in 2 days for $500k.  I&#8217;ll include a $100,000 option-consideration check, however there would be an inspection contingency.  He must have heated marble floors throughout, even in the garage!  I would definitely do this if I could hide in the bushes and secretly video tape his reaction when he read the offer.  That would be sooo worth it!  You don&#8217;t even know!</p>
<p>I mean seriously&#8230;there were many people who called and spoke to my Realtor or left a message pissed-off that I mailed them about buying their house.  If you didn&#8217;t care, don&#8217;t pick up the phone and waste your breath and my time.  Some people just have way too much free time on their hands and want something to have an opinion about.  Some of these messages remind me of the Family Guy episode with the lonely old widow cut-away.  A few of these ladies got my letter today for sure and called in.</p>
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<p>Seriously, these people just don&#8217;t know I was making it rain with their letters hours before I sent them.  Kick rocks!  I&#8217;m out.</p>
<p>P.S.<br />
If my CraigsList ad gets flagged one more time, I&#8217;m whoopin some ass!</p>
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<p>Today wraps up the end of day one of the Yellow Letter campaign.  I received 30 calls in total.  That&#8217;s already a 3.75% response rate.  However, there are only two leads (one warm and the other is semi-warm).  This technique is reported to yield a 10 to 15% response rate, so that means I should have another 50 responses or so.  Hopefully, I&#8217;ll get some more leads.  I could care less about responses.<a href="http://easycaptures.com/3537176983"></a></p>
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<p>Which brings me to my next topic.  I have about 7 voicemail messages that are utterly ridiculous.  These messages were left when my Realtor was occupied with other calls or after 6pm.  And I mean they are pure comedy!  I bet the callers would be infuriated more if they could hear me laughing when listening to their messages.  I&#8217;m choosing the top two to share for your listening pleasure.  I worked on my six-pack by listening to these.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.justinmcclelland.com/audio/idiot.wav"><br />
<img style="border: 0pt none;" src="http://www.justinmcclelland.com/images/audio.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="73" height="73" /></a>&#8220;Like I didn&#8217;t already know this&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.justinmcclelland.com/audio/500k.wav"><br />
<img style="border: 0pt none;" src="http://www.justinmcclelland.com/images/audio.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="73" height="73" /></a>&#8220;I&#8217;m really tempted on this one&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>The last message really inspires me to make an offer.  He wouldn&#8217;t have received a letter if he had a house with a tax assessed value over $150K, in-case you couldn&#8217;t smell the sarcasm.</p>
<p>Perhaps I&#8217;ll FedEx this guy an offer tomorrow.  The offer would be an option to buy his house in 2 days for $500k.  I&#8217;ll include a $100,000 option-consideration check, however there would be an inspection contingency.  He must have heated marble floors throughout, even in the garage!  I would definitely do this if I could hide in the bushes and secretly video tape his reaction when he read the offer.  That would be sooo worth it!  You don&#8217;t even know!</p>
<p>I mean seriously&#8230;there were many people who called and spoke to my Realtor or left a message pissed-off that I mailed them about buying their house.  If you didn&#8217;t care, don&#8217;t pick up the phone and waste your breath and my time.  Some people just have way too much free time on their hands and want something to have an opinion about.  Some of these messages remind me of the Family Guy episode with the lonely old widow cut-away.  A few of these ladies got my letter today for sure and called in.</p>
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<p>Seriously, these people just don&#8217;t know I was making it rain with their letters hours before I sent them.  Kick rocks!  I&#8217;m out.</p>
<p>P.S.<br />
If my CraigsList ad gets flagged one more time, I&#8217;m whoopin some ass!</p>
<p>- Justin</p>
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<p>Today wraps up the end of day one of the Yellow Letter campaign.  I received 30 calls in total.  That&#8217;s already a 3.75% response rate.  However, there are only two leads (one warm and the other is semi-warm).  This technique is reported to yield a 10 to 15% response rate, so that means I should have another 50 responses or so.  Hopefully, I&#8217;ll get some more leads.  I could care less about responses.<a href="http://easycaptures.com/3537176983"></a></p>
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<p>Which brings me to my next topic.  I have about 7 voicemail messages that are utterly ridiculous.  These messages were left when my Realtor was occupied with other calls or after 6pm.  And I mean they are pure comedy!  I bet the callers would be infuriated more if they could hear me laughing when listening to their messages.  I&#8217;m choosing the top two to share for your listening pleasure.  I worked on my six-pack by listening to these.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.justinmcclelland.com/audio/idiot.wav"><br />
<img style="border: 0pt none;" src="http://www.justinmcclelland.com/images/audio.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="73" height="73" /></a>&#8220;Like I didn&#8217;t already know this&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.justinmcclelland.com/audio/500k.wav"><br />
<img style="border: 0pt none;" src="http://www.justinmcclelland.com/images/audio.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="73" height="73" /></a>&#8220;I&#8217;m really tempted on this one&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>The last message really inspires me to make an offer.  He wouldn&#8217;t have received a letter if he had a house with a tax assessed value over $150K, in-case you couldn&#8217;t smell the sarcasm.</p>
<p>Perhaps I&#8217;ll FedEx this guy an offer tomorrow.  The offer would be an option to buy his house in 2 days for $500k.  I&#8217;ll include a $100,000 option-consideration check, however there would be an inspection contingency.  He must have heated marble floors throughout, even in the garage!  I would definitely do this if I could hide in the bushes and secretly video tape his reaction when he read the offer.  That would be sooo worth it!  You don&#8217;t even know!</p>
<p>I mean seriously&#8230;there were many people who called and spoke to my Realtor or left a message pissed-off that I mailed them about buying their house.  If you didn&#8217;t care, don&#8217;t pick up the phone and waste your breath and my time.  Some people just have way too much free time on their hands and want something to have an opinion about.  Some of these messages remind me of the Family Guy episode with the lonely old widow cut-away.  A few of these ladies got my letter today for sure and called in.</p>
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<p>Seriously, these people just don&#8217;t know I was making it rain with their letters hours before I sent them.  Kick rocks!  I&#8217;m out.</p>
<p>P.S.<br />
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<p>- Justin</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I forgot to post yesterday. I&#8217;ve got a lot of things going at once. I think I&#8217;m going to drop the Accountability Tuesday idea and just make Accountability Updates every once in a while. Actually, scratch that, I almost coped out just then. I&#8217;ll just have to remember to make those weekly posts every [...]]]></description>
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<p>Today wraps up the end of day one of the Yellow Letter campaign.  I received 30 calls in total.  That&#8217;s already a 3.75% response rate.  However, there are only two leads (one warm and the other is semi-warm).  This technique is reported to yield a 10 to 15% response rate, so that means I should have another 50 responses or so.  Hopefully, I&#8217;ll get some more leads.  I could care less about responses.<a href="http://easycaptures.com/3537176983"></a></p>
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<p>Which brings me to my next topic.  I have about 7 voicemail messages that are utterly ridiculous.  These messages were left when my Realtor was occupied with other calls or after 6pm.  And I mean they are pure comedy!  I bet the callers would be infuriated more if they could hear me laughing when listening to their messages.  I&#8217;m choosing the top two to share for your listening pleasure.  I worked on my six-pack by listening to these.</p>
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<img style="border: 0pt none;" src="http://www.justinmcclelland.com/images/audio.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="73" height="73" /></a>&#8220;Like I didn&#8217;t already know this&#8221;</p>
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<img style="border: 0pt none;" src="http://www.justinmcclelland.com/images/audio.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="73" height="73" /></a>&#8220;I&#8217;m really tempted on this one&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>The last message really inspires me to make an offer.  He wouldn&#8217;t have received a letter if he had a house with a tax assessed value over $150K, in-case you couldn&#8217;t smell the sarcasm.</p>
<p>Perhaps I&#8217;ll FedEx this guy an offer tomorrow.  The offer would be an option to buy his house in 2 days for $500k.  I&#8217;ll include a $100,000 option-consideration check, however there would be an inspection contingency.  He must have heated marble floors throughout, even in the garage!  I would definitely do this if I could hide in the bushes and secretly video tape his reaction when he read the offer.  That would be sooo worth it!  You don&#8217;t even know!</p>
<p>I mean seriously&#8230;there were many people who called and spoke to my Realtor or left a message pissed-off that I mailed them about buying their house.  If you didn&#8217;t care, don&#8217;t pick up the phone and waste your breath and my time.  Some people just have way too much free time on their hands and want something to have an opinion about.  Some of these messages remind me of the Family Guy episode with the lonely old widow cut-away.  A few of these ladies got my letter today for sure and called in.</p>
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<p>Seriously, these people just don&#8217;t know I was making it rain with their letters hours before I sent them.  Kick rocks!  I&#8217;m out.</p>
<p>P.S.<br />
If my CraigsList ad gets flagged one more time, I&#8217;m whoopin some ass!</p>
<p>- Justin</p>
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		<dc:creator>Justin McClelland</dc:creator>
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<p>Today wraps up the end of day one of the Yellow Letter campaign.  I received 30 calls in total.  That&#8217;s already a 3.75% response rate.  However, there are only two leads (one warm and the other is semi-warm).  This technique is reported to yield a 10 to 15% response rate, so that means I should have another 50 responses or so.  Hopefully, I&#8217;ll get some more leads.  I could care less about responses.<a href="http://easycaptures.com/3537176983"></a></p>
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<p>Which brings me to my next topic.  I have about 7 voicemail messages that are utterly ridiculous.  These messages were left when my Realtor was occupied with other calls or after 6pm.  And I mean they are pure comedy!  I bet the callers would be infuriated more if they could hear me laughing when listening to their messages.  I&#8217;m choosing the top two to share for your listening pleasure.  I worked on my six-pack by listening to these.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.justinmcclelland.com/audio/idiot.wav"><br />
<img style="border: 0pt none;" src="http://www.justinmcclelland.com/images/audio.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="73" height="73" /></a>&#8220;Like I didn&#8217;t already know this&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.justinmcclelland.com/audio/500k.wav"><br />
<img style="border: 0pt none;" src="http://www.justinmcclelland.com/images/audio.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="73" height="73" /></a>&#8220;I&#8217;m really tempted on this one&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>The last message really inspires me to make an offer.  He wouldn&#8217;t have received a letter if he had a house with a tax assessed value over $150K, in-case you couldn&#8217;t smell the sarcasm.</p>
<p>Perhaps I&#8217;ll FedEx this guy an offer tomorrow.  The offer would be an option to buy his house in 2 days for $500k.  I&#8217;ll include a $100,000 option-consideration check, however there would be an inspection contingency.  He must have heated marble floors throughout, even in the garage!  I would definitely do this if I could hide in the bushes and secretly video tape his reaction when he read the offer.  That would be sooo worth it!  You don&#8217;t even know!</p>
<p>I mean seriously&#8230;there were many people who called and spoke to my Realtor or left a message pissed-off that I mailed them about buying their house.  If you didn&#8217;t care, don&#8217;t pick up the phone and waste your breath and my time.  Some people just have way too much free time on their hands and want something to have an opinion about.  Some of these messages remind me of the Family Guy episode with the lonely old widow cut-away.  A few of these ladies got my letter today for sure and called in.</p>
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<p>Seriously, these people just don&#8217;t know I was making it rain with their letters hours before I sent them.  Kick rocks!  I&#8217;m out.</p>
<p>P.S.<br />
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<p>- Justin</p>
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