We naturally started with our personal circle of family and friends who have witnessed our journey from the beginning, we have also begun posting blogs on LinkedIn and our website, we've created a CRM database of all the potential investors we have met in our network, and are soon releasing our first recurring email newsletter for our subscribers.The frustrating part of all this is that it feels like I'm pushing a rock up a hill that just won't make any progress.

Best  method is buying from wholesalers or to go direct to sellers.You can purchase lists and compile lists from city and county for 60-90-120 days late on mortgage, pre-foreclosure, delinquent taxes, water cutoff, code violation, probate, divorce, high equity, etc. and mail or cold call.Other methods are driving for dollars, door knocking, wholesalers, craigslist, Realtors, FSBO sites, expired listings, foreclosure sites, put out bandit signs, billboards, newspapers, other offline publications.You can use pay per click/adwords, facebook, Linkedin, Youtube, and other forms of online and social media marketing.

find me on Linkedin, twitter #retwit, or YouTube!

You can also do a FB/linkedin/etc search on people.

LinkedIn is valuable too so that you can verify job history, etc. 

DP will also help identify someone on Linked In from those banks that you might be able to reach to as your direct contact.Brecht does a great job showing you how to read the quarterly reports from the FDIC and coaching you on what to do.  

Seek out "real estate investors" in LinkedIn and connect with them.

A quick LinkedIn search yielded quite a few (153).

Lastly - I wouldn't start with the phone calls, I would start with Linkedin, email and then phone calls.

I can't DM here, but you can easily reach me on LinkedIn, FB, or IG.