The number of acquisitions, often fixers, went up when we began to market to pre-foreclosures (that I found in the local public newspaper). 

FSBO ads & signs Home Inspectors I Buy Houses Ads Magnetic Car Signs Market Conditions - Unaware Media - Radio/TV/Paper/Mag Mortgage Banker/Broker Moving - Estate Sale Negotiable Neighborhood Farm Network with professionals Network with service people Newspaper Ads - Tuesday Owner Will Carry Open Houses Postal Workers Post Cards Quick Sale - Fast Closing Radio/TV Spot ads RE Agent Ads/Expired MLS RE Agent - No Equity Prop RE Agent - Stale/Junkers Referral Fee Offerred Rental Ads - Over 2-3 Wks Run your own ad - I BUY… Sell Your Home in 24 Hours Signs/Shirt Ads Specialize in hard to sells Title Company Utility Workers VM-I Buy/Rent-to-Own Wholesalers Yellow Pages - Full Page Ad

So I worked three jobs - a newspaper route starting at 4 AM, then a 9-5 job and then I went to the football stadium and sold beer at night.

Ask around research, look at prices raise and fall, see recent sales, newspaper articles, call local agents, post on BP, do a economical analysis and demographic of the area see where it's going.

Thomas Mitchell that's a very good way to advertise to sellers on the newspaper Thank you for sharing that

Every Monday my local newspaper posts many probate cases in the area.

Here they are published in the newspaper.

I really learned a lot by just reading the daily newspaper on business so I could understand the world around me.

I'm just saying I didn't even realize sales were the key to business building until I was into my twenties yet I had been opening and running businesses since I was 7 delivering news papers.

If I really want to dive into the world of research, I will start perusing the obituary section of the news paper and see where that takes me.