The newspaper and CL ads start running tomorrow.

I saw an ad for a new 3/2, 1 car garage in the local newspaper on Sunday, June 17th.

Overgrown, newspapers piled up on the front door, a boarded up window (not shown).

In my contract it states that the seller allows the buyer to market the property on the MLS, in periodicals, Newspaper, and with a for sale sign in the yard. 

I want to initiate an advertisement blitz in the fall via newspaper, radio, web, etc.

Instead of looking for lis pendens in the news paper, looking up county records online one by one....

When I started out I did do flyers and I did go door to door but not as random as your question suggest.First I got the list of homes in pre-foreclosure the city and or legal newspaper and I went to work looking through the records of who owed what – making educated guesses as to values in each area – then I mailed flyers and or went door to door knocking on those homes where I thought they had equity.I also would go to the auctions and keep track of what homes sold and figured someone bought them for a reason and I would go knocking on their doors.Did it work – sure – that is how I got my first few deals.

Check out the local newspaper and see how many in that area are for rent and what they are renting for.

Look on craigslist, the newspaper, and any other source for rental listings.

You can search Craigslist, local newspapers, take out wanted ads in the paper or put signs on the side of the road that say "we buy houses".