Me my business is social medial, for example I've got about 50,000 Instagram followers so there's all sorts of random folks there. 

In following @203kway on instagram I also heard the tip to offering on short sales and foreclosures with 203k loans will increase your chance of acceptance because they preference offers from live in buyers.

@Ronnie Hutchinson last week I put a house for rent on instagram, fb and snapchat.

TV, radio talk shows, and Facebook are all full of how-to guides and tale trading of fantastic flips as well as those that turned to flops.But the fact remains, when done right flipping a property can be a golden opportunity to turn pennies into dollars.

Thanks for your precautionary tale.

:ReferralsDoor KnockingDrive for DollarsEvery neighborhood I visit, look at surrounding housesHudstore.comAuction.comMLSSheriff sales/courthouse stepsNetworking at events (REIA, Meetup, business owners)Pass biz cards out everywhere (guerrila marketing)Local wholesalersNetwork with real estate agents who investNetwork with real estate agents who regularly sell flipsNetwork with agents who specialize in REONetwork with divorce attorneysNetwork with estate attorneysNetwork with bankruptcy lawyersNetwork with trust attorneysNetwork with title companiesNetwork with funeral homesNetwork with REO brokersNetwork with funeral homesAdvertise in local newspapers/magazinesAdvertise in Church bulletinAdvertise in church city paperLocal billboardsDirect mail to preforeclosureDirect mail to tired landlordsDirect mail to landlords who filed evictionsDirect mail to owners with 100% equityDirect mail to homes with recent deathsDirect mail to owners around flipped houseDirect mail to houses with water turned offDirect mail to houses that just came out of trustsBuild my own list to email and follow up with themSearch Engine Optimization (SEO) + contentCold email sellers/renters on CraigslistFacebook ads targeting: investors, wholesalers,sellersBuild an Instagram following showing renovationsGoogle adwords targeting sellersBing ads targeting sellersGo to yard sales and talk to owners (if selling)Go to estate sales and talk to owners (if selling)Posters in unemployment office (legal?)

I followed a guy in Instagram though @the203kway who has a ton of good information on it.

Not long ago I posted an ad on Instagram for Air BnB friendly loan products and had to turn off comments because some people seemed to be convinced that I've single handedly gentrified the the bay area. 

This is true for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and certainly BP.

It's those maniacs that buy homes cash via quit claim deed off of craigslist that really get screwed.Make sure your property manager is a licensed real estate brokerage.Google Clayton Morris scam and/or Morris Invest scam for a cautionary tale of what not to do when buying turnkey real estateUnderstand you can not eliminate all risk, only mitigate it.