oRemember what grit looks like: Picking up cardboard boxes from dumpsters to make bandit signs, selling your stupid TV for direct mail money, using your lunch break to cold call Craigslist, etc.

If you can't add to their life, you'll have all the appeal of a Magic Jack TV commercial.Become a seeker of knowledge.  

Otherwise, you might as well just do mass-mail, broadcast marketing to all households or change media to TV or radio or (dread) online media.

They've been programmed to think the only way to make it in the world is to get a degree and climb the corporate ladder and work long days for someone else just for the privilege of going home and watching TV so you can rest up and do it again tomorrow and look forward to that week vacation once a year.  

3) Outdoor - from bandit signs, to billboards, to complete car wraps...4) TV spots----------Facebook would be a free way to start getting your name out there, but i don't see it doing much for you as far as finding motivated sellers.

What you are looking for is extremely targeted - b/c of that I would not recommend radio or newspaper - this coming from a guy who has spent close to $10M on TV ads in the past 12 years.

The local tv station loves the crazy idea and will do a story on it.  

On TV, I absolutely use the Vanity Number and always use the words "We're Local" with the telephone number.

Reminds me of the old TV show "Dragnet" a few of the squares in that net are real  estate laws, but there are many other squares from the UCC, FTC, IRS, laws relating to business, accounting regulations, banking and finance that are the umbrella under which we operate.

TV spots 33. full-page ads in the yellow pages.