With occasional tweets for local events they may not know. 

I believe it was a West law book used by Tennessee attorneys that only occasionally are called upon to do Tennessee probate work.

Catering is good, but at least occasionally they should pop their heads in the doors and talk to agents.

Occasionally with hard money lenders.

A good Realtor will also be able to occasionally send you deal opportunities, but keep in mind this is not their primary role. 

We've lived here 17 years and have had the occasional rat in the crawl space but nothing like this.

My dad has transitioned into devoting all of his time to real estate investing as well and is working on a few projects which inspired me to take action as well.Through the local REI group and the connections I was introduced to there, the BP podcast, blog posts, and ultimate guide, as well as the occasional fatherly guidance I pulled off a goal I wanted to reach before I turned 21.

It is also helpful if you have a friend or relative that could drive by your place occasionally, just to keep an eye on things.

. :) we started in the winter of 2010 and it's been a blur after the first 4. we got the first one in march of 2010. second was in  December of 2010. 2011 - we got 2. 2012 - we got 2. 2013 - we got 32014 - we got 62015 so far - we have gotten 5 and have 1 under contract.we had no idea what we were doing in the beginning in terms of the person on the loans, so we were both on them, even though we could have gotten them with either of us. that slowed us down a bit since we hit 4 loans and had to find banks that could do 5-10. then we stalled again trying to find banks that could do 10 for me and 10 for wife (that's where it hurt us that both were on the loans for the first 6.then we just said, screw it, let's look for a bank that give us a LOC. after 55 calls to local banks, i found one that took 7 of our homes under a 20yr 4.95% and gave us the LOC. that's been super helpful. 

He says she calls occasionally to make sure everything is okay but otherwise does not come by.