Google AdWords and Bing Ads are your best bets if you have a budget.

Other unit is where I see the value add for possible BRRR.Both units currently rented for $1,350 per month ($2,700 total revenue per month)For evaluation sake, I calculated that I had to pay full asking price, $3,000 annual taxes, and $2,000 annual insurance.Self manage the property, 8% vacancy, $100/month maintenance expenses, $100/month Cap ex, and $100 utilities.$64k down, and another $15k rehab to bring the 2nd unit in line with the 1st.I come up with cash on cash return of around 9.3%.

We'll offer you a Home Equity Loan with 3% closing costs (on the total amount of  your loan) and a not so good interest rate of 5.49%I'm very inexperienced in the loan industry.  

That would be your total cash income / loss from the rental property. 

Anybody who has made it a point to try to tell me how much money they have has turned out to be a total waste of time or have no money at all.

Just make sure to make smart bets and continue to learn as much as you can.

There are lots of quantitative metrics ("mainstream" as you say) to observe here (P/E for the S&P - see chart below, margin levels, ratio of total market cap to GDP, etc), & anyone with access to google can see the same numbers.

Totally not crazy.

I had gotten 5 leads in total from these strategies but no deal.

So if you want to count my total time to include education (which I looked at properties every day but didn't offer) then it took me  6 months before I purchased my first investment property.