Food, Drinks, Games, and Socializing! 

Use social media, paid advertising, secondary booking sites, direct email, forum discussions, chamber of commerce, etc.Listen, STR is NOT a stand alone INVESTMENT like LTR.  

The "race to the suburbs" kicked off again in the covid era, and via social unrest and budget impacts in metropolitan areas.

Connect with others and post on social media channels such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, etc. 

I agree 100% with @Eliott Elias & @Michael BrattelliI'd also recommend you make a list of all contacts from your phone, Social media, and other acquaintances.

(IE social media, carpentry, crunching numbers, etc.) 

Also 365 days of social posts was good too

Hi BiggerPockets crew:I am new to the property management space and am looking for the best influencers to follow on social media. 

If you want to build a following of potential investors, I recommend you start a podcast, write eBooks, write an actual book, get guest spots on many podcasts, work social media and more.

This is my first post in 3 years.The market is in a very different place in that time.There has been a pandemic,and interest rates have doubled.Social media posts from baby syndicators and operators have slowed,if not outright disappeared.No prizes for guessing why.If you are a newbie reading this,you should never forget this cardinal lesson:Real wealth in real estate is created with equity,not cash flow.And certainly not with transactions.That's why the maxim says "we make money when we buy,not when we sell".It's because you run into all sorts of factors that may be outside your control WHEN you sell,IF you have to sell.Equity builds over time.Slowly.Patience is a virtue.It's why long term buy and hold will remain the king of the real estate game.Not Flipping,not syndication,and certainly not vacation rentals.You must diligently prioritize buying and OWNING your own piece of dirt financed with LONG TERM debt,preferably conventional loan that is deliberately underleveraged in a niche unlikely to be legislated out of existence by sensible new city or county ordinances predictably aiming to protect the local economy.That's how you keep your assets in ANY cycle without having to close bad deals in order to make another buck for another day.Even if you like the passive side of investing in syndications,you must be smart enough to understand you never actually OWN those units.So when someone tells you they own 2000 or 3500 units,call BS.When prices and rents are surging with historic low interest rates,even a 12th grader can become a hotshot syndicator overnight with the right amounts of flashy social media posts with rented red Lambos,Richard Mille watches and private jets strategically inserted.When rates rise,as they have,and projections and proformas head for the toilet,we see many who have been swimming naked.The skinny bad deals closed in a blaze of hysteria and chutzpah circa 2017/2018 with 3% interest rates are coming up for refinancing or sale today.It's 2022.Many of them have 5 year balloons.That's the place the crash everyone has been debating to death is going to start.Exit strategy in real estate is more complicated than can be taught in a 3-day bootcamp.No matter how much you paid for the course.Keep it simple.Real estate is really very simple.