I am a property manager of a larger apartment community (300 apartments) and we won't hold a vacant unit longer than about 1-2 weeks, however we have the funds and traffic volume to be able to do that.

Although there is correlation to real estate due to foot traffic and density, the majority is driven by coverage requirements from the wireless carriers (AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint).

Helps protect our property during the move-in when typically there is a lot of traffic coming in and out of the house.

Neighbors see it, traffic will notice.While many looking for garage sales may not think much of it, those in RE or related to RE will take note.You're advertising your activity level, showing that you're in the business.

Once the phone starts ringing you will find a deal with enough margin to wholesale.A quick mention is that an alternate strategy could be to build a website and start driving traffic to that through SEO and Google AdWords.

Can anybody help me out with getting traffic count info?

@Rob Henriquez, is that going against traffic from your side..?

I also subscribe to the podcast and listen to at least one every day in traffic.

Those are Adwords related and are referred as "paid traffic".Adwords, or paid traffic, is another great way to get people to you sites.  

Hey Brad, I work in Hebron, near the gap outlet....how about that Christmas traffic?!