Marketing!: Having people calling YOU to give you leads

[Tommy R]

I want to know your best ideas for marketing to have people call to give you leads.

Why? Because yesterday I was driving around for an hour looking for deals. I didn't find a single abandoned/obviously distressed property but more importantly I realized that is not how i want to spend my time.

I want to spend my time doing ABC:
ALWAYS BE CLOSING

So I need leads coming to me.

Current ideas/strategies:
-Posting craigslist ads, offering $ for the location of these houses(some upfront, or perhaps say $500 if I close the house)
-awesome bc it's free

-Posting in newspapers

-Remnant time on the radio

-Also bandit signs saying "buying houses for cash"
and to take it further, billboards (I recall seeing one that said "I buy ugly homes" years ago, now it's very clear to me lol, that would require capital though.

Share your best ideas especially ones you've had a lot of success in:

[Mike Nelson]

I feel your pain, I actually started telling friends what I was doing. They became intrested and I started offering them $500 - $1500 on deals that I closed on. I get about 15-30 properties a week from them and usually they are good leads.