If you do not like showings and you are DIY landlording, then I'd suggest an open house ... that's only one showing and if lots of people are there at once it can drum up competition.

,I think it depends on your portfolio, but my friend has over 100 houses, doing 5 or 6 additional flips a month and still doesn't have a full time crew.But this same friend did create a company with a master plumber to do all of his plumbing work and if he doesn't have work for him, he can go drum up work from elsewhere but that's almost never necessary with 100 houses and 5 to 6 flips/month.

In fact I can hear the war drums beating in the distance with several cities due to the whole affordable housing state of affairs.

@Rob Drum Jr.Thank you!  

Great deal on home for 20k but it may be a way for the bank to drum up interest.

Woke up to the sound of drums beating in the distance every morning and was woken up to drunken English chants every night from below my balcony..

We are going to start pushing out to the neighborhoods that likely receive less interest from investors like myself and see if we can drum up more deals there. 

If you want it done quickly, rent a drum sander and use lowest grit.

Unfortunately, you won't find those properties on the MLS, so you'll need to drum up your own leads.

They are holding broker open houses (during the week, since brokers are showing houses on the weekend), they do other marketing besides the MLS, they network with other brokers/agents (again, during the week), they drum up buyers themselves to show the house to, they do print/online marketing, etc.