Spend a portion of your $5000 in direct mail/yellow letter marketing. or2.

In direct marketing, a typical response rate ranges from 1% to 5%, meaning you might receive around 10 to 50 calls from 1000 postcards.

Persistence definitely pays off in direct marketing.

What is good rate of response versus a low rate of response from letters typically in Direct Mail of this kind? 

For a guy just starting out you have pointed me in direction for some very valuable information that I did not even begin to consider.

Just for reiterate part of the OP's question, would you all recommend putting your web URL in direct mail letters, or not?

During underwriting they will check who is on title and see that the person buying appears to be dealing indirect or is paying a price that is higher than the original contract says (the difference between the initial deal and the deal after the assignment fee).

We started with investing in direct mail and have chose wholesaling to build capital.  

To facilitate the change in direction this year,  I would like to sell 2 of my current SFR that have just been vacated to free up some capital.   

And it really only works if you are in direct contact with the seller, which eliminates the MLS as one of your acquisition channels.