In order to find these people you need to market...bandit signs, direct mail, ads in newspaper or Craigslist, networking with other real estate professionals, etc.

I spent a few days coming up with a application that will pull all the e-mails address from the last few days of "real estate for sale - owner " sectionIt would then send all of those folks a ( call me I want to see the house and put in an offer e-mail )I ran the program once, most of the folks that called want top dollar or market value.

I just get an e-mail when it is complete and all the reports have been run.

For the second floor apartments, how do your tenants get mail?  

I also sent out e-mail blasts to groups asking for investor friendly brokerages.

Just last week, I purchased a list of absentee owners from List Source and started mailing out yellow letters.Today, I heard back from a seller and I am scheduled to go out tomorrow to look at the house (YAY.  

I have received so much education and guidance from BiggerPockets re: direct mail, website, sellers and buyers list, etc. in addition to to the fact that I am a broker and member of my local MLS.

I was just now reminded of this by an email that I received.If you want to own rental properties, I highly recommend that you use a competent Property Manager (PM).  

Still nailing down my marketing plan so I can send out some direct mail.  

Getting a good tenant reminds me of a term we use for buying high quality tools: "pay for quality and you only cry once; buy cheap and you'll cry a lot."