.$1k - create a awesome REI website that includes epic wow educational content that converts.$1k - hiring someone/company to handle all your online marketing from- SEO-Blogging-Email Marketing-Video Marketing-Profiles/Citations-Social Mediaall this can run you around that amount or lower$500 - use this amount for PPC on Google, Facebook and a number of other$N/A - run local newspaper ads$N/A - run radio ads$N/A - run tv ads$1,000- use this to do direct mail, and send them over to that educational rei website that will convert into leads.$1,000 - sponsor as many activities in your local market as you canJust this alone will dominate any local real estate market. 

@Trevor Ewen   @Bill CarovanoI do like Google Tasks, sadly the native Android app has no widget (can't begin to understand that... that makes a task list epicly more useful!)

Not to mention the banks have mostly fixed the shady low lending practices which should prevent a large downturn to the epic scale of 2007.