If you are a motivated seller and you see two cars at the gas station with magnet signs that read "We Buy Houses Cash, Any Condition" along with the phone number.

Direct mail (good podcast by Michael Quarles here, magnetic signs on your car, pass out business cards.

But I've heard dozens of tales just like this.On a similar note, a carpet cleaning guy (who did an excellent job) left me a business-card-sized refrigerator magnet the first time he came out.

If you're going to market to first-time home buyers, then I recommend creating some kind of guide to give away as a lead generation magnet.  

If you use the wall switch you posted, there will likely be issues as it is magnetic and not digital.

In other words utilizing the general exemption for private placements costs about $8 - 12K less than using a Regulation D 504 b or c exemption from registration for private placements, but almost no attorney will take a case to sue when the Reg D is properly used, while the general exemption is a magnet for lawsuits.Just for clarification, here’s how it almost always goes.  

If done using the general exemption for private offerings, then the syndicator loses his statutory defenses in any lawsuit brought by a disgruntled investor, making it much easier for an investor to win at trail, and making the syndicator a magnet for attorneys willing to take the case on contingency, in contract to syndications which are done correctly under Reg D where attorneys would only take the case being paid not contingent on the outcome, unless fraud is involved.

Further, owning a property with no liens can be a magnet for lawsuits.

Those loans are hard to get because they're too small don't generate significant revenuethe properties get vandalized because all of the sudden they're the best house on the streetthey're a magnet for crime because that must be where the money isyour cash flow is eaten up in tenants that don't pay and fixing things that get brokenthey're just really risky in generalI say go a little bigger and get loans that lenders want to give, go with tenants that will have some pride in where they live (keeping your property clean and in good repair) and bring a sub par property up to speed with the rest of the neighborhood.  

Heloc can be a source of money magnet if you are lucky to meet the right lender.