In reality, SEO (in terms of optimizing your pages) is only a small piece of the puzzle nowadays.

You should have enough budget to send at least 5 mailings to your list with a gap of 3-4 weeks in between.Do not overthink the content in your mail piece.

You will have piece of mind and no calls and no drama.

After listening to the chapter on seller finance a light bulb went off in my head, I grabbed a piece of paper and started to throw some numbers around. 

What you may be best off doing is offering to partner with an experienced investor, with you bringing some knowledge, while they're bringing experience to the table, and offer a slice of the pie (typically the bigger piece, or 50/50 since you are a newbie) and they'll bite, as they're not yielding time, possibly money, but rather their wisdom and experience alone!

@Mike Parkins, for you the process is nothing different from the normal sell - buy of a piece of  investment real estate.  

We found a chain-saw, a shovel, paint cans, broken shutters, pieces of a treadmill, a bicycle, landscaping debris, etc.  

Of course new home builds costs even less on the take-off sheet pricing.We are finding that these trim finishes are becoming standard in even mid-level homes while the wains is a distinctive added-value.  

It's hard to find a fund that isn't a REIT to get involved on a larger scale unless you are able to put the downpayment on a piece of property there, Traditionally only the large hedge funds and pensions that have been involved in this extremely unsexy (yet, cash flow liquid!)

He also said he’d bring a couple pieces of mail with his name and address on it as proof of his residence.