Professional SEO here with 15 years experience (who happens to be looking to get into the STR game in the next 12-18 months). 

This has the dual benefit of helping you stay informed on what’s going on in your local market and knowing all the new members who introduce themselves from College Station, and also every single one of those 660 posts is now an “SEO” post - every time someone googles a thread that’s come up, your name and business appear in these forums, alongside your quality answers. 

Wholesalers, bird dogs, networking, MLS (occasionally there is a deal), mailers, SEO, media adds. 

I am working on a product that will help small-medium size landlords launch and maintain Internet presence at a small monthly cost without spending big budget on custom development.It will include: SEO, custom domain, direct syncing with your property management software, syncing with QB. 

Ignore that I sell SEO services, on BP I am offering everything I can for free.

Now:You can spend thousands of dollars on SEO and PPC and still make no deals. 

I jumped ship and tried my own SEO / Adwords campaigns, hired experts and did all the right things but couldn't generate an abundance of leads let alone anything of quality.

Who is using marketing companies for Seo and paid google ads?

So I am thinking my next move since I don't like how well the mail performed,  is to try SEO.

Lots of people focus on "SEO" to get new leads first... but really the only SEO anyone should focus on first is ranking well for your company name and brand searches (like "[your company] reviews").