Mailers (postcards), texting, cold calling property owners.  

Having a timeline in mind helps, especially here in Illinois if you start your flip in the winter and use these cold months for inside work as the real estate market slows down for the season you have a great chance of getting it on the market in the spring!

I'd cold call.

People fleeing the cold, the taxes (income and property), and the state government regulation for the opposite.

People that are actually working are always better than cold calling.

I have been cold calling at a brokerage and have learned so much being in that environment.

It gets COLD up here and we do lose power at least once a year. 

I cold call non owner occupied 1-4 units every day and have found sellers willing to sell at 70% ARV.

We have just been hit with cold weather here in NC.

Cold belt states and small markets could be years just depends on the new lease up rate and would that work for smaller tenants and their business model.