Renting for all my independent life now, I've noticed rentals I've found were on certain platforms being advertised, like craigslist, apartments.com, Facebook marketplace, and landlords posting to their personal social media accounts.However, I can't imagine these avenues being the only advertising methods, when you have something like vacancy to fill.

It's the same on social media.

A few tactics that come to mind are: - creating a single listing page (landing page) that captures contact info - paid social ads that drive to the single listing page What's the perfect use case for a single listing page?

Are they active on social media?

You can find it on Facebook "Birmingham Investor Social".

We the people need to pull our heads out of our social media butt's, stop accepting BS, lies, antics and hate and start demanding answers, responsibility and accountability from our leaders again or were gonna reap the consequences. 

What scared in the article is the mentions of personal financial risks, LLCs not really protecting your personal assets, the amount of investors filing bankruptcy , social threats, scams, etc.Is this article over blowing these facts, trying to sell REIT ?

Grass roots marketing/networking/free social media 2.

I'm reading up on books and articles on how to do this but sometimes it's easier to join social groups or talk to people close to me that have done it before.Right now my goal is to get pre-approved for a loan and to learn from others.

The social peer pressure among the group will usually force them to figure out problems/drama that otherwise would be much harder if they're not in the same social circle.