Some of that is accidental, if it happens to hit on the day (usually Friday & Saturday) that all the other Adverts hit, it can get tossed in a big bundle along with all those valuable coupons.But my experience teaches me that no matter how I dress up or down my Post Card, it will not pull the same.

But to get started the above advice from other posters is the best way to start.What people may have meant about BP is that you could post an "advert" in the marketplace. https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/517-real-esta...I think you have to be a paid, (pro), member to do that but that is probably what they meant.

This was the best decision i made, not only do i have sellers calling me, but we have agents and brokers that see our advertizing and they call me when a deal is falling apart and we can step in an close it.

There is still a very big traditional market, but i believe that companies will be spending less and less on traditional adverting such as radio and tv ads due to things such as the DVR and Pandora/iTunes.

It is not a advertizing environment, but rather a bunch of colleagues helping each other.Jim

You watched Josh's entire series of barnyard adverts for the BP Summit!

We have over 45 units just as my husband and myself and in multiple partnerships that we control, everything from finding properties, comps, investing capital, renovating, tenant screening, lease signing, showings, adverts, repairs, tenant needs, accounting.

It also could be a pseudo lost leader of sorts;  generating more leads for eventual homes sales instead of spending adverting dollars or provide enough work for justify paying for a more experienced/full time manager, who has knowledge, skills, and abilities to drive value on other areas of operations.In short, the if the POH rental model was always bad, then ELS, SUN, and UMH wouldn't have rental companies, so don't discount it off the bat.

Advertings costs money, websites cost money, emoployees cost money, developers cost money, etc. etc. 

I plan to use sites like VRBO and AirBnB to advertize, etc., but I'd like to drive traffic to my own site so that I don't have to share a cut if I don't have to.