Walk the neighborhood, hand out flyers, market on Facebook, Craigslist, Instagram, Zillow, etc to try and get as many people there as possible. 

Lets see if in 10 or 12 years has Portland become a model city that other municipalities want to emulate, or if it will have fallen into poverty and destitution--looking for endless federal government handouts to solve its decay, and other problems.I remember a city in the past that was much much greater than Portland, that quickly fell into destitution from lawlessness and STUPID decisions, that to this day is consider by many a "No-Go Zone".

Provide useful tips, local insights, and insider knowledge about the vacation rental market to position yourself as an authority in the industry.Network at industry events: Attend vacation rental conferences, trade shows, and local networking events to connect with homeowners, industry professionals, and potential clients.

If not I could give them a handout that has useful tips on budgeting.Is this appropriate behavior?

Most of the experts on this forum didn't get there through handouts.

Instead you kept staying until the last possible minute and now are trying to appeal and are continuing to miss the deadlines of the handouts given.

Most private lenders hand out cash because the borrower is a "good guy/gal".

Not everyone needs your service TODAY, so if you just go hand out cards once, by the time they need you they will forget you. 

I also used the data from it to prepare a handout to send to investors. 

I suspect were you bought  a 500 fico is average.. so your kind of stuck with that hand out mentality and tenant.