If you're a Real Estate investor, there is an amazing tool that will help you to save money and automate your real estate investing business. This tool is available at skype.com, and can help you in various ways which I'll explain throughout this article.

Skype is an online phone service that allows you to get your own dedicated phone number for about $30 per year. You can also use skype to make phone calls for another $30 per year. With skype it's easy to set up seperate local phone numbers for different business purposes for your real estate investing.

Skype Use #1: Have a dedicated number for seeking tenants in each one of your properties. You can use a newspaper ad and sign on the front lawn of the property to drive people to call your skype number. You can then use a pre-recorded 30-60 second message to pre-screen the potential tenant giving them the overall details about the property, rent, etc.. Then you can use the voice mail on your dedicated number to respond to targeted interested leads. This can save you an immeasurable amount of time because it puts the leads for your property into one easy to manage voice mail box that you will can check when you want to deal with those leads.

Skype Use #2: Have a dedicated number for your deal prospecting. Many Real Estate Investors will use the "I Buy Houses" types of signs to find property deals. You will want to use a different phone number for these types of leads than for seeking tenants because this is confusing (and potentially counter productive) for these different types of leads to cross paths. You don't want your tenants to know how you find properties and you don't want your property leads to know how you get tenants into a property. By using a dedicated skype number for each of these different types of leads, you'll avoid confusion and make your life a lot easier.

There are other alternatives to skype including voice mail services that provide dedicated numbers. I've found skype to be the best priced at only $30 per year per dedicated number. I've used up to 5 dedicated numbers at a time and skype made it easy to have 100% completely unique phone numbers for the different real estate investment strategies and properties that I've used them for.

If you're new to Real Estate investing, you'll want to have separate phone numbers for business and your personal life. This way you can segregate your business activities to a dedicated time where you will focus on work without sacrificing your personal time and privacy to your new business.