"Let me save you 40K, heck if you want to fire sale it let me throw it up for 180K and save you the 20K". 40k buys a lot of newspaper ads and flyers. 

Word of mouth, bandit signs, a small ad in the newspaper (old folks who want to downsize or get out of the rental the've had for 30 years STILL READ THOSE.

The newspaper?

Purchased a few years back, rehabbed, rented for a year or so, hoping to have it sold in the next few weeks. they're building a city dump a few blocks away and i want to unload it before i have to deal with it.i'll tell you what i did. figure out how to find the auctions in houston https://dailycourtreview.com/ ($20 a year or $2 in quarters in newspaper machine in front of where they have the auctions)Also, the websites of delinquent tax attorneys Linebarger Goggan Blair and Sampson, at http://www.lgbs.com, or Perdue Brandon Fielder Collins & Mott, atwww.pbfcm.com, contain lists of the properties set for tax sale by the taxing units they represent.searched for houses near my current place research them (google/zillow/trulia/redfin/realter/har).comdrive by the houses analyse what you're willing to spend on itfind one or more that you're willing to invest indo a foreclosure title search a few days before the auctiona few days before to make sure it wasn't removed from the auction block, thus wasting a few hundred dollars.also to make sure there a no outstanding liens on the property that could cost you moreregister for the auctiontake a big wad of cash that you've been saving for years and get small cashiers checks 1k/5k/10k/etc to the auction and watch the other biddersthen bid..The property i got was starting at 30K... someone bid 30k, someone else bid $30,100, then i walked behind them and said $35k. maybe i scared them off by bidding 5k more, maybe they didn't want the property anyway.some of these bidders for $5 at a time trying to maximize their returns. i was new, and i'm 6'4", so maybe intimidating?

Newspaper While quickly fading from use, the classified section of your local newspaper is a good place to look for homes that are "For Sale by Owner."

Remember newspapers?

In construction news, I just read in newspaper that federal government is giving millions to Puerto Rico in the next 5 years for construction and repairing hurricane damage.

I try to keep up with current events through news station and newspaper Via web until we have in passive income to make the jump. 

This is one of the most popular questions, I think I asked the same question when I started out..I thought just like you did I need a LLC to start out the reality its optional..Creating an LLC in NY sucks you need to publish it after creating it typically in a Newspaper for a couple of weeks, that was the case a few years ago assuming its the same right now but I haven't checked.  

It's all public knowledge because it gets printed in the news papers as part of the lien process so they shouldn't have an issue giving you the info.I do not believe that "we" as the public have access to the county tax site, but I've had my local tax collector and assessor both give me info on properties I was interested in.