Maybe a gated community and offer amenities.

I was tempted to include a letter with a picture of the golden gate bridge and include a note that I have no financial interest in this property or the london bridge.. 

I leveraged it to buy 3 houses right out of the starting gate.

Those types of money raises are really really difficult, so for those folks to be able to leverage off of all the notoriety and exposure Crowd funding is getting in my mind is huge.To that end I have personal experience with RM and RS and they were very keen on making sure the deals coming out of the gate were well underwritten and vetted, they did not want to have a Milwaukee type incident. ..

The law of averages catches up and the flood gates open.

This is a gated community that never keeps the gate closed!

also, if you got a good enough price on it, it's usually worth adding a few "luxury" items (luxury for that neighborhood -not for bill gates) to get a quicker sale.

.+ unit places right out of the gate.

I did a good amount of business in the city of Rochester buying rental properties.Are you focusing on the city or the other areas like Chili, Henrietta, Gates etc?

But, here we have the city shutoff right at the meter typically down near the sidewalk/street and then a shutoff right where the water main comes into the house.In my area it is code to have the water meter in the house isolated with gate or ball valves Usually the valve before the meter has a lock out on it that only the water dept. can open or some sort of tamper seal to prevent people from by-passing their water meter.