Grab your local adjudicated newspaper (Chicago Tribune) and look in the legal notices section of the classifieds. 

You can also buy lists from companies like list source and there are some REI software companies that have a cash buyer search feature.Best way to find motivated sellers is to purchase lists and compile lists from city and county for 60-90-120 days late on mortgage, pre-foreclosure, delinquent taxes, water cutoff, code violation, probate, divorce, high equity, etc. and mail or cold call.Other free methods are driving for dollars, door knocking, wholesalers, craigslist, Realtors, FSBO sites, expired listings, foreclosure sites, put out bandit signs, If you have the funds you can use billboards, newspaper ads, other offline publications., TV commercials, radio ads, do pay per click/adwords, facebook, Linkedin, Youtube, and other forms of online advertising and boosted/promoted social media postings.Bottom line is consistency.

It’s not about properties it’s about sellers.That being said you can purchase lists with different motivations like absentee owners, 60-90-120 days late on mortgage, pre-foreclosure, delinquent taxes, water cutoff, code violation, evictions, probate, divorce, etc. and mail or cold call.Other methods are driving for dollars, door knocking, wholesalers, craigslist, Realtors, FSBO sites, expired listings, put out bandit signs, billboards, newspapers, other offline publications.You can use pay per click/adwords, motivated seller website with SEO, facebook, Linkedin, Youtube, and other forms of online and social media marketing.

Use any combo of the above and mail or cold call.Other methods are driving for dollars, door knocking, wholesalers, craigslist, Realtors, FSBO sites, expired listings, put out bandit signs, billboards, newspapers, other offline publications.You can use pay per click/adwords, motivated seller website with SEO, facebook, Linkedin, Youtube, and other forms of online and social media marketing.

I have various "collectible" items that probably won't amount to much including a complete copy of the Stars and Stripes newspaper released the day WWII ended.Cash - I am always building up a reserve of cash.  

., please don't discourage Michael with your misinformation , the cost of setting up an LLC in NY is only $200. and the publication fee is whatever the newspapers that are assigned to you by the county clerk which is usually about $85 for 3 weeks .

If you want the manager can run ads in a newspaper and charge you but why?

Both are auctioned on the courthouse steps, but one you find out about first through the Clerk of District court, and the other by notice in the newspaper. 

They will not accept things such as paper diapers, sanitary napkins,tampons, children’s toys, wads of toilet paper, balls of hair, grease, oil,table scraps, clothing, rags, sand, dirt, rocks, or newspapers.

That's odd, I never sent out one yellow letter, the only stamps I bought were for verifications mailed out, then got a meter, never ran a TV, radio or newspaper ad, but they talked to me in interviews.