No reason not to add the sizzle to the steak. 

At a minimum, you need to call and mail out to your 300 closest friends/acquaintances/relatives/whoever, plus order 2000 business cards and start passing them out like candy. www.Retechulous.com (Josh Schoenly) is an agent marketing company that I've heard good things about (and no, I have no connection to them whatsoever).Might also want to google "real estate agent forums" to talk to rank and file agents, though 99% won't know crap about investing, if that happens to be a particular interest of yours.

I'm starting with the closest ones.I have 2 homes to go see in parks tomorrow that were advertised.

Closest to you would be Eastern Mass REIA in Taunton (2nd meeting in Rockland).  

Bradford, I use Zillow, hotpads, Facebook, and even have a sign on the main road closest to my unit. 

The upstairs 1 bed 1 bath unit is the closest to being ready and should bring in between 550-600 per month.

Hi Malik,Your closest bet is probably Connecticut or NJ.

Might be a silly question but, what would you say is the closest area just outside the city that would be less expensive?

The closest I have is some 7-plexes.  

I'm hoping to have the two of us run out to an Albany REIA meet (the closest one to us) sometime in the near future so we can start networking in the REI world out here a little more.