Best to advertise what you can do to help them in their current situation, then going right to $ or probate questions.

Did your advertising say $x for 4 people?

Can I advertise a product or service in it?

I want to start a publicaiton like For RENT or THE REAL ESTATE BOOK, or some type of home sales advertising booklet.

It made me smile becuase the person who advertised, even though a broker, is ready to do something which he probably might have laughed at during the housing boom.

we've got tickets to go to Oprah tomorrow, and I'm gonna wear the pants she's advertising....I'm gonna wear the blouse and bra that she advertises...yeap, thanx to Oprah, I'm my own woman".

so i have been working on building my marketing plan and I plan on hitting NYC area my family is in nyc and so am i right now and i guess you could call me an opportunist with lots of spare time so i want to use wholesaling techniques to snatch off market deals cutting out all the middle men involved and yea fixing and flipping them for now as i have a limited source of capital at the moment although eventually i will be holding multi families for rental income...My plan is to find a broker or agent willing to pay a monthly fee (equivelant to my advertising cost) in exchange for a steady stream of referrals for all the motivated sellers who call me but are not willing to work with me at my price or have a move in ready home and want to sell at market value which is clearly not what i am looking for....there are so many empty billboards in NYC but i will probably start out with a 3x12 Banners that i can have made for free at the moment and find willing commercial business owners in industrial areas with a high traffic count...

If you make a sale by deceitful tactics...that's 1 sale...maybe...but if you make a customer with practices of integrity, then you have repeat business, as well as (word of mouth) advertising. 

There are lots of threads about how to find deals...so some searching and looking around the site.In general though, these days, the best deals are off-market deals that are found through direct marketing, advertising, Internet marketing, cold calling, etc.

But isn't there an expectation that the data that is posted on the sales advertisement for the house is "reasonably accurate?"