And with the cost of phone, food, insur and medicine, even tv is no longer free, they may be living on the financial edge.So speak with them and let them know what the rent should be and how you plan to get there. 

You can purchase lists with different motivations like absentee owners, 60-90-120 days late on mortgage, pre-foreclosure, delinquent taxes, water cutoff, code violation, evictions, probate, divorce, etc. and mail or cold call.Other methods are driving for dollars, door knocking, wholesalers, craigslist, Realtors, FSBO sites, expired listings, put out bandit signs, billboards, newspapers, other offline publications.You can use pay per click/adwords, motivated seller website with SEO, facebook, Linkedin, Youtube, and other forms of online and social media marketing.If you have a big budget you can do radio, TV and billboards.

For internet leads the best bet is to get a site like Carrot.comYou can also purchase lists with different motivations like absentee owners, 60-90-120 days late on mortgage, pre-foreclosure, delinquent taxes, water cutoff, code violation, evictions, probate, divorce, etc. and mail or cold call.Other methods are driving for dollars, door knocking, wholesalers, craigslist, Realtors, FSBO sites, expired listings, put out bandit signs, billboards, newspapers, other offline publications.You can use pay per click/adwords, motivated seller website with SEO, facebook, Linkedin, Youtube, and other forms of online and social media marketing.If you have a big budget you can do radio, TV and billboards.

It was just luck that we fell into it & as each exec left we scored the odd Bose system/TV etc that they couldn't take back.

Not everyone buys into the lie that getting up at 7am, putting on an off the rack suit, driving in traffic to a crappy office all day just to suck up to clients hoping to make chicken scratch, then heading home and maybe, maybe spending a few hours with the wife... alone in front of the TV is a life worth living.

Make sure all the lights work, all the TV's work, all the supplies are there, etc. 

You want to make sure you have good amenities, tv, coffee, good furniture.

As the owner you need to be providing cable TV, wifi, not to mention a house full of furniture and household goods.

All the living room furniture, TV and kitchen supplies are mine, so I think it was appealing for people to just bring their bed and their toothbrush and be ready to go. 

TV stations first, then newspapers.Get some press on this and the politicians will take notice.