You could apply to some of the head line daytime shows and see if you could make your presentation; another avenue might be "Grant" money; you might consider attracting a college student to work as an interne on this project "fund raising" or writing Grant Requests to government agencies or other groups.

If you are in a competitive market, you might have to make a lot of offers before you get one accepted.There may be cases where the asking price is too low and it might be a good deal at 20% over asking price based on the ARV of the property.Make your offers more attractive by higher EM or fewer contingencies.Good luck!!

@Jeff Berry who are the types of people you want to attract?

What is attracting you there?

They are trying to attract more institutional money to buy tranches of properties and while not dictating terms as Carlos F. pointed out, the big money is looking to the REO-to-rental model as it presents the best long-term return possibilities.However, you made a statement in there that many of us have pointed to as a major problem.

Low quality properties only can attract low quality tenants.- Lesson 5: get into legal fight with tenant.

They wouldn't have been attractive tenants to lots of people due to bad credit.

Which makes my listing less attractive as prospective applicants are intimidated into applying for my property: 1.

I am in a strange position to where I am in a real estate training course getting familiar with all the techniques and have access to properties for sale but I have yet to learn how to attract buyers or where to find them.

It has to... the law of attraction never sleeps.