You have to just commit to doing the lead generation 5-6 days a week (social posts, door knocking, talk to people you know, talk to people you don't know, host open houses for agents in your office, drive for FSBO's, etc) until you have planted so many "seeds" that they result in business. 

There have been some famous scientific studies that showed people were far more likely to want someone else knocked down to size than for themselves to be lifted higher if they perceived a situation was unfair.

Looking to start diving into the cold calling/knocking game.

Tenants do want another tenant having access to their home and the manager doesn't want tenants knocking on their door all hours of the day.

I'll also keep up with door-knocking, which I typically do on weekends.

My suggestion is to go off-market by buying Google Ads, mailers, PPC/PPL (google ads), door-knocking and more! 

For example my simple spruce up would be, renno bathroom, and kitchen, paint, and redo carpet upstairs.But if i think real deep into what I could do to make it a STUNNER then I think, knock down walls, create more open/broken floor plan, add central air, possibly do an addition to add a 3rd bedroom and second bath.So when you could do ANYTHING .. how do you draw the line of what you should do?

Too many people chase returns and do not research the offering or risk - for me personally, I think this offering was a very bad investment thesis and am not surprised by the outcome - but I also think STR's and MTR's are dumb as well - so its not a knock on one person or one business model.

@Cherilyn Williams Welcome to the school of hard knocks!

Communication is SEVERELY lacking from all the agents involved plus the brokerage.Finally, I just drive to the sellers house in person and knock on the door.