Anyone who says it is meaningless is ignoring both history and mass psychology.

Rather than taking the shotgun approach and blanketing a zipcode with mailers spending lots of $$$ on mass marketing, I can specifically target prospective sellers.  

There were about 20 people massed by the staircase inside the courthouse building, and it's a mix of race, gender, economic situation, and motivation.

Population : 13 0003 hours from Boston, 3 hours from NYC, 3 Ski resort 20 min away,Windsor Lake, Tourist Hotel, MASS MoCa - Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary art ( about 300k visitors a year), low property taxes, MCLA - Mass College of Liberal Arts (1500 students) and most important EMRCA - will attract 1,298,00 visitor, create more then 3000 jobs, and generate 328m in increased local economic output.I bought a rental property in North Adams few months ago, positive cash flow.

I have shared this before but to recap, the PM team I work with markets available units on 84 listing sites, EIGHTY FOUR, self-managing is hard-pressed to get 8 listing sites running, the obvious value is mass exposure which = more $ and shorter vacancy.

More than that you are in much higher risk territory.as it relates to what the mass's buy for in real estate IE small rental props I agree. this can be achieved if they have their own marketing department and are acting as a wholesale/buyer and the return is created by taking equity from the seller or Value add in a fairly significant way.. but just buying performing rentals day one pretty tough or you get suckered into very hard to manage low end war zone type properties that generally trade for these kinds of returns based on risk. 

The tenants didn't see me fall.Ended up with 2 skinned knees, bruised palm and some pulled muscles in my shoulder. 

If Americans got their head out of their asses and stopped believing USA is number one in anything except mass shootings, there may be hope for improvement.

The only way rates come down in the next year or two in a meaningful way, is if our Federal Reserve completely screwed up, the rate hikes cause a massive recession/depression, a bubble bursts, and mass job loss/deflation forces them to reverse course quickly. 

You'll learn more from doing one deal that is yours than you will reading about what others have done/might do.You'll build a whole new muscle group based on mistakes, missteps, failures and eventually, successes.