*Obviously if you did this the advert would have to be unobtrusive to the person living there and still marketable to street traffic.Just some ideas on ways to make properties more profitable, what does everyone think?

I think they are going to do what craigs list did to the paper advert business  :)  I digressThese areas of Northern cal to my knowledge have not gotten on the skinny house band wagon @Brian Burke  you guys doing any skinnies in SR ?

BP is a real estate content website, adverting is the primary source of income for businesses like this.

I would put up a post and advertize you willingness to do just that in you market area and then interview folks that respond.  

There are several companies that do it and I know some advertize with Bigger Pockets.

I made a $46K offer and purchased it for $52K, and set the closing up for 2 weeks later, put my $500 earnest money in my pocket and went home.4 days before closing she called and said the buyer got cold feet because her "friends" had told her that there was "no way she could buy a house for $2K down" (see any post for my normal deal) and that there must be something fishy.Now I was PO'd because I was going to have to insure it, turn on utilities ($150-$125 of which is non-refundable) and PAY for an advert ($11).

I paid 300.00 for some local advertizing several months ago (quarterly mag, story and 6 followup ads) I contacted the guy a month ago and he said they ran into some trouble but were still going to be able to run my story and ad.

the cleaning is then part of the rent (so you add extra to the rent before advertizing it to cover that). 

What if I rented out one unit, lived in the other myself, and advertized around the area looking for a room-mate to split my side with me?

However,  I would have to come up with the 25k in rehab funds.Asking: 265KRehab: 25KRent: Avg $440 (10 of 12 current units rented)Expenses: (2014 totals)Advert: 800Insurance: 3250Yard: 580Trash: 1240Snow removal: 610Reapairs/Maint: 11,100!