So, Ive been thinking. AOL has a free phone service. Ive tried out in the past and it works well. You get a local phone number that people can call and leave a message. You can also leave an intro voice message for incomming calls. Ive personally tested the length of the voice mail one can leave and It went up to 2 minutes. Im sure I could of gone longer but two minute voice intro is long enough.

So how would this benefit you ( the realtor )? Well you can go up to a fsbo and ask them if you could leave a sign on their yard with a local voice mail # about their property. This would benefit both you and the seller because an email would be sent to you with the the time a caller called and their phone number. Tell the seller that you will give the list of callers to them by email every friday and that they would have 24hrs to call each person and ask if they would be interested in seeing the home. After that 24hrs its open game for you to call them to see if they would like to be represented on that property or if you could help them find something else. You can even direct the caller to leave a message if they want help finding a home or direct them to your website. Only problem I see is that you have to create a AOL for every FSBO that does this and theirs no way you can foward the email ( notice of callers ) to another email account. Therefore you would manually have to go in there every day to check each and every account to see if anyone called and left a message. Doing this would be time consuming ( at least 30 minutes to and 1 hr each day ). You would also have to be very orginized. Each email must have the same password and I would suggest you put all the info on its own index card. For ex:

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Mr & Mrs Home Owner

Owners Email: MrOwner@aol.com

Phone Number: 123 555 1234

Owners House Address: 1234 Funny Street

AOL Email 1234FunnyStreet@Aol.com

AOL Password:  #### ( this would be a universal pass code )

AOL Voice Mail #: 123 555 1122

Let me know what you guys think or if theres another system we could exploit. Remember this method is cheap ( FREE ) but time consuming. This information is for REALTORS® would cant afford a 800 toll free number with extentions.

PS make sure to call each number once a month so it wont be deleted. As long as it get at least one number a month, it will stay active.