Great points, Jay, my background is in marketing and running an advertising agency (lot's of account management).

A couple of weeks later they abandoned the apartment, but left many possessions behind and, obviously, provided neither notice, no returned the keys.Part1: Abandonment and PossessionBy the time we had gone through the process to regain possession of the apartment and permission to remove the {former} tenants' belongings it was November.  

I am knocking on doors of homes that are in preforeclosure and came upon a home that is abandoned and going to auction September 1st but I cannot locate the owners, which is obviously impeding my ability to even speak with them.

I think when I was in my 20s, there was a certain reckless abandon that helped me win big on certain deals (deals that I wouldn't do now that i am older and more cautious) and taken on big losses.

Its not uncommon for some landlords to spend money on advertising, but in my experience that has only been from institutional type clients that had specific marketing initiatives they wanted to complete.Have you interviewed several brokerages?

I have already ordered about $200 worth of brochures advertising that I buy houses and I mention myself as well as my wife in these brochures and have both our pictures.

Smith I would slowly transition from one form to the other, and then ensure you are getting good results with the internet marketing before abandoning your conventional marketing.    

If you call the guys that advertise they'll hit you with $4k or so around here for that kinda thing. 

We function a little differently being we only advertise and put out bandit signs out when we have a property to sell.

You'd also have to coordinate cleaning service and change-overs.Another option still is to hire out the front-end marketing and contracting, where an online manager does the advertising and booking, basically everything to check in.