The average house in Houston lost 1/2 it's value and the VA and RTC foreclosures were 2 to 3 pages in Friday and Saturday's newspapers.

Take flyers to your local Section 8 office, put up directional signs in the neighborhood, put an ad in the local penny saver newspaper, talk to the neighbors.

In today's Pocono Record Newspaper there is a good article regarding rentals in the Pocono's. 

They will not accept things such as flushable wipes, personal wipes, baby wipes, paper diapers, sanitary napkins, tampons, wads of toilet paper, dental floss, balls of hair, paper towels, newspapers, grease, oil, table scraps, bones, clothing, rags, sand, dirt, rocks, or children’s toys.

You can purchase lists with different motivations like absentee owners, 60-90-120 days late on mortgage, pre-foreclosure, delinquent taxes, water cutoff, code violation, evictions, probate, divorce, etc. and mail or cold call.Other methods are driving for dollars, door knocking, wholesalers, craigslist, Realtors, FSBO sites, expired listings, put out bandit signs, billboards, newspapers, other offline publications.You can use pay per click/adwords, website with SEO, facebook, Linkedin, Youtube, and other forms of online and social media marketing.If you have a big budget you can do radio, TV and billboards.

You also have the chance to get paid for driving for dollars leads...that is looking for fsbo...vacant houses...tall grass ..moving vans...pods...newspaper pileups....etc....you're putting those all in your database skip tracing them and calling and calling them until they list.

The newspapers were full of articles about amateur investors who had made fortunes overnight.The old crowd on Wall Street had a rule that a bull market was not in full stampede until it was being played by 'bootblacks, household servants, and clerks'.

I've advertised on craigslist.org, social service sites, the local newspaper, and in local stores.

below I'll list you 27 ways :) On a more serious note, I myself am financially ready to invest but feel like I need more education. therefore I am super eager to analyze deals for others to gain experience, and if one of those deals will end up being an actual investment there could be a commission for the finder and it would be a double win.Ways to find deals :)  - MLS - Driving for dollars (and actively asking)- Your inner and outer circle (social clubs and groups)- Real estate clubs - BP marketplace- Direct mail marketing - Pre-foreclosure (contact home owners ahead of time)- Courthouse steps- Eviction records- Craigslist adds- Craigslist keywords- Tax liens  - Yard signs- Billboards- Car signs - Radio commercials - Looking for 'for sale by owners'- Expired listings - Family and friends - Newspaper adds- Landlord magazines- Blogging or content marketing - SEO (search engine optimization) - Wholesale - Commercial brokers- Online market places 

I saw this article below on our local newspaper site.