All of these having a trickle-down effect with regard to google authority on any/all of our SEO activities.

Make it credible, work on SEO and while you organically rank that site you do paid marketing like facebook ads or PPC.This you need to do without question.I did this almost 5 years ago and now I am buying houses for  10% ARV and all leads come in on autopilot, automatic 100% free and extremely motivated.Actually, just yesterday I told a motivated seller to go climb a tree and kiss my ***, because he felt like he had the right to be rude.

I get a lead a week off just SEO, easy.  

As soon as a PM and contractor find that they work well with each other, the contractor can focus on doing what he/she, (usually), does best, getting work done, instead of selling the next job or paying for SEO or Pay Per Click Ads.  

In order to purchase 12 rehabs a year using primarily mailers and website SEO how many letters a month do you think it will take to get to 12 properties a year?

either paid (costly) or organically (seo, free_)5.  

Cold calling, door-knocking, DM, internet marketing, online remarketing, SEO, creative marketing, flyers, everything is just a way to generate leads.

I have enough repeat bookings now that with some SEO to get my page ranked higher in Google search, I hope to ditch the booking sites altogether.

I then test and create my own seo methodologies satisfying those reasons and more.  

I'm reaching to motivated sellers as a cash buyer and am curious what methods others have taken.My site is SEO optimized and I'm following a plan to get higher ranked but have been advised it can take 6 - 12 months to move to page 1.