I had to pay up to $8 per click and even then, was getting a lot of dead end leads.I have been looking for an expert in this area and having spoken with a few, the lowest budget you would need to be thinking of is in the order of $1k per month for a 3 month stint.After that, it comes down to what you want to use it for.

The bad guru has no problem having someone who is dead broke raise their credit card limit and bury them in debt for years to come.

However, one group of investors that contacted often with wholesale deals in the past year all of a sudden has a URL that was shut down and a dead email address.  

Paying down a mortgage is simply turning cash into dead equity.

Of course much study took place before beginning the year, but by taking action and doing we were able to compound the learning and flesh out what was needed to manage various parts of the business and its operations. 

If you just make income that is considered 'dead money' or fake money as you lose 2-3% of value due to inflation

Looks old/dead. 

If you have the partners, you could just create the LLC out the gate with all members defined and monies deposited, or you could set it up so it's only yourself, then have them "buy in" to owning interest in the LLC at a later date.If you are able to get funding before finding a deal, people who do this, setup everything and hold the funds in a interest bearing account while they hunt for deals, but the terms have a drop dead date that the money is returned if a deal is not found by some date in the future.What I would do is find a deal, get it under a LOI or contract with an assignment right, then present it to your partners.

I saw a show on this.. they focused on Sicily way out in the boonies roads were poor.. towns dead and dying that's why they are giving the houses away.. all of them MAJOR fixers. 

The house I'm currently working on had dog poop in one of the bedrooms and a dead bird in the dinning room.