Show your clients what you know – and how you can help them – and they’ll gladly show you their money later on.•Public speaking – This may not seem like a natural offline marketing strategy, but it has potential you may not have considered.

In this market, cash is preferred over anyone who needs to get financing because financing is tight to non-existent.

I start with data from public records.

And their name will stay out of public records.

In most cases they already know you're an investor.I tell every seller I come in contact with that I'm NOT a NON PROFIT Organization and I do plan on making a profit.

A great flower ot flag logo on the stamp appears non threatening and non-pro.

The area I live in has been struck hard by foreclosures and delinquent taxes.In today's paper there are 140 properties forfeited to the state for non-payment of taxes and a sale is scheduled later this month.Can anyone give me a quick step-by-step list of what YOU would do if you were going to flip one of these properties?

> • I hammer out the details with the seller/agent Yes but that means you are working with listed properties, they are a little trickier to wholesale as most Board of Realtors contracts have a non assign-ability clause.

Edna, I pursued investing in non-performing loans for a brief time before I realized that I was better of working my own business (short sales) instead of changing gears.

You can market to people with retirement accounts (IRA, 401k, etc), advertise in publications (be careful on your wording here as you do not want to violate any SEC rules), and you can hold small meetings or even one on one presentations either in your home or for a breakfast/lunch meeting.