All sellers do one of the following. 1- they drive the neighborhood for for sale signs and call the agent or read the flyer.2- they look in the classified section of the newspaper for houses for sale3- they read Realtor magazines for prices or4- they visit open houses.If they say they don't know I ask them if they could do us a favor and drive the neighborhood for housing that's for sale with flyers and determine how their house compares to that house.

At the extreme end, possible unprecedented Presidential emergency powers the likes of which have not been seen since 1960's school desegregation cases or actions as extreme as those taken by the Lincoln administration during the Civil War (blockading ports, destroying or taking over newspapers and mass media, arresting governors and even congressmen, etc) and later during Reconstruction in the South; Wilson during WWWI, FDR during WWII, Bush and Obama post 9/11.

I heard a good tip from one seasoned investor who said he picks up a greensheet or local newspaper and keeps the contractor ads for months.

They have not advertised this auction anywhere except the local newspaper; no where on the internet.

I believe it was one of his audio programs, can't remember which, where he was interviewing a direct response marketer who was doing half and full page newspaper ads with great success.

He had been a lineman for the telegraph company in the mountain mining camps of Utah and a part time gunsmith in his youth and said learn to use the rifle, shotguns are for people that can't hit the side of a barn.

Newspaper Display?

By the end of July we were marketing in newspapers and had a plan for 1000 letters a month.

I always look in the newspaper.

For example, in NH, the only notice to the public of foreclosure is the first public notice in MyPublicNotices.com and in the local newspaper.