Door Knocking Strategies

[Matthieu Miser]

I'm in Provo, Utah and the market is (very) hot right now, so I'm looking for alternative ways to find deals. Most of the threads I've found on door-knocking have focused on how to talk to potential sellers.

I spent most of my college years doing both door-to-door and business-to-business sales, and I'm pretty familiar with all of the techniques for approaching a cold lead, building rapport, overcoming objections, getting rejected, asking for the close, etc. 

Rather than advice on talking to sellers, I'm wondering if y'all have any insights on high-level strategies. For example, here are some approaches I'm considering:

• Buy/build a list of absentee owners and drive around knocking on the owners' doors.
• Knock doors of people who own tax-delinquent properties in my county
• Drive neighborhoods. Look for poorly-maintained properties. Knock the door to see if it's an owner-occupant interested in selling. If it's not owner-occupied, skip trace to find and contact the owner.
• Drive neighborhoods, find poorly maintained properties, then ask the neighbors if they know if anybody lives there, etc.

What do y'all think of these techniques? Are any of them bad ideas? Are there any ideas I should be including in this list?

Thanks!