LA does have open enrollment so there are some options not usually advertised.

In Minn. it has to have your broker's name in all advertising which includes social media.  

however, is there a law says that real estate agents could not buy the property that they are advertising ??

I guess the concern for me of oversimplifying is that I don't want to necessarily mislead anyone into believing I'm just a person who's interested in living in the neighborhood.But at the same time, I don't want to advertise that I'm an investor either.

Assignments are generally cheaper though than double closings.If you can find an attorney/title company that will double close (if you have a local REIA join or at least get a monthly news letter and look for title companies/closing attorney's and call to see if they will do this as they are the ones most likely that will and the ones at our local REIA advertise they do double closings) there are a few things you can do to minimize your costs.

Here are a few: Advertised and took buyer there before I had it in contract, filled out the contract wrong, used a contract I found online, tried doing a double closing with no transactional funding, never got the rent or security credits from the sellers, mis-matched the buy and sell contracts so I got stuck in the middle paying $1300 for the title insurance.  

The handful of advertising platforms are consolidating and thus chage is coming quickly.

We have come to the conclusion that we need a wide angle lense to take great photos of our units for advertisment (the inside photos).We have everything we need for 35mm - camera, lenses etc., but we do not want to use film.We want to go digital with a new camera and use the old 35mm lenses (not that old actually 5-6 years with very little use).

Please do be sure and read the forum rules, in particular about advertisements.

One way I have used many times over in three states is word-of-mouth advertising.