Great points, Jay, my background is in marketing and running an advertising agency (lot's of account management).

Its not uncommon for some landlords to spend money on advertising, but in my experience that has only been from institutional type clients that had specific marketing initiatives they wanted to complete.Have you interviewed several brokerages?

I have already ordered about $200 worth of brochures advertising that I buy houses and I mention myself as well as my wife in these brochures and have both our pictures.

If you call the guys that advertise they'll hit you with $4k or so around here for that kinda thing. 

We function a little differently being we only advertise and put out bandit signs out when we have a property to sell.

You'd also have to coordinate cleaning service and change-overs.Another option still is to hire out the front-end marketing and contracting, where an online manager does the advertising and booking, basically everything to check in.

I have been in sales, advertising and media planning for the last 12 years.My husband was in the construction battalion (sea-bees) in the Navy and is a master inspector in Concrete and Metal construction.

Your investors need to be accredited or sophisticated, you need to be careful about advertisement and you need to follow the correct guidelines. 

While the phrase “meaningful and conspicuous” may seem subjective, we strongly advise members to use a common sense approach to advertising.

Luckily, I have the support of my husband and we will be living off of his wages as for the credit and capital, I have decided to wrap my car in advertisement.