I was thinking about letting the leases expire and using the units as AirBnBs/short term rentals.

Then you can mail or cold call or both.Other cheap or free methods are driving for dollars, craigslist, Realtors, FSBO sites, expired listings, foreclosure sites and bandit signs if allowed.If you have the funds you can use billboards, newspaper ads, other offline publications., TV commercials, radio ads, motivated seller websites, SEO, pay per click/adwords, facebook, Linkedin, Youtube, and other forms of online advertising and boosted/promoted social media postings.Bottom line is integrity and consistency.

Then you can mail or cold call or both.Other cheap or free methods are driving for dollars, craigslist, Realtors, FSBO sites, expired listings, foreclosure sites and bandit signs if allowed.If you have the funds you can use billboards, newspaper ads, other offline publications., TV commercials, radio ads, motivated seller websites, SEO, pay per click/adwords, facebook, Linkedin, Youtube, and other forms of online advertising and boosted/promoted social media postings.Bottom line is integrity and consistency.

That being said there’s nothing stopping a buyer from waiting you out and then going to the seller after your contract expires so you need to make sure you are working with legitimate cash buyers that are ready to close.

If you have hired a buyer's agent, you could ask your agent to easily pull you a list of all multi-families/apts in MLS (not talking about active listings, expired, etc)--your agent should know what this means and how to do it). 

When leases expire, the plan is to rehab both units.

Three years since lease expiration have passed, we would love to finance more realestate deals if we could sell the land for an approriate value........anyone in oil/gas biz??

This is an opportunity to negotiate an option to purchase on the property which can give you an unchallenged option to purchase when the owner is ready to divest (provided the option has not expired).

Based on the MLS I wouldn't take anything out there unless it was a really good deal. 1 property sold there last year, 2 expired, 1 active at 190 days on the market.

Expired Listings3.