This was originally posted on our Main Real Estate Forum by Jim Kennedy:
- Place a newspaper ad (major daily)
- Place an ad in Pennysaver, Thrifty Nickel, Greensheet, etc.
- Bandit signs
- Drive neighborhoods looking for vacant houses and FSBOs
- Call FSBO ads
- Search MLS for junker properties
- Search MLS for expired listings
- Contact landlords who are evicting a tenant
- Contact landlords with properties for rent
- Pre-foreclosures
- Foreclosure auctions
- REO’s
- HUD & VA houses
- Tax sales
- Estate sales
- Properties with outstanding building code violations
- Properties with outstanding health code violations
- Condemned properties
- Fire damaged properties
- Out-of-town owners
- Network with professionals, i.e. attorney, CPA, REALTOR?.
- Network with service people, i.e. letter carrier, pool service person, lawn service person, newspaper delivery person, carpet cleaning people, plumbers, etc.
- Bird dogs
- Wholesalers
- Magnetic car sign
- Distribute business cards EVERYWHERE
- Career attire (Polo shirt with embroidered “I Buy Houses” logo)
- Fliers
- Door hangers. ( In my area (Houston), some of the big players also do)
- Billboards.
- Radio spots.
- TV spots.
- Full-page ads in the yellow pages. Hope this helps. Best of success!