Go to a couple Pizza places get the real estate for sale mags or newspapers go to their websites to search new listings.

So my options here for flipping are 1. calling banks and seeing if they have any distressed property they want to sell, and 2. finding deals myself through various sources (newspaper, craigslist, etc) Also finding investors for each way.

Often, obituary columns are on line, so you don't need to subscribe to all the newspapers.

This is in comparison to direct mail, bandit signs and newspaper.

The California Farm Bureau publishes a weekly newspaper named AgAlert.Also keep in mind that the cost to entry is VERY high in farming (at least in SoCal) the ONLY reason that we have our place is that we got it when the dotcom bubble burst and the general recession around that time.

There are a ton of different ways to market yourself, craigslist, newspapers etc.

Hyperlinked...Newspaper articlehttp://www.freep.com/article/20120803/NEWS04/308030121/2-buyers-purchase-all-627-of-tax-foreclosed-Macomb-County-properties-at-auctionArticle with videohttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/03/bill-mcmachen-macomb-county_n_1739062.html

I am searching sites:mls, craigslist, kijiji, vancouver sun, province newspaper, usellahome.comI am right now tracking properties in a spread sheet (both price that we are looking at buying and want to sell for) too see which ones are selling and in what period.I am also using bc assessment website to see what aprox. price the surrounding properties are worth and how much they have sold for.

If you have a lot of time and little to no money, there are a number of things you can do but it's gonna take a lot of hard work:1) Call all FSBO and For Rent ads on Craigslist and other free advertising websites (and newspapers).

Local TV and newspaper web sites may provide some info.