I too like direct mail - it has worked for me for many years - I call that passive marketing - but I really prefer being pro-active and getting out there on the street and knock on doors - this is a great marketing procedure because look at all the real estate you drive by to get to that target property. 

Sam, I thought Dawn was talking about a self-directed Solo 401k, i.e. one where she wants to use funds to invest directly in real estate, for example (not merely through Wall Street products).

The condo is right across the street from her university.

Given the prevalence of tactics such as renting and letting friends and family live there, drugs dealings, and government regulations such as "Companion animals" I want to be able to get rid of problem tenants earlier than later.

There are many different types of special needs housing such as drug recovery half-way houses, and veterans programs. 

I'm watching a 8U go up across the street that I suspect will sink into the swampy soil because they poured a trench type footing rather than driving piles like the better constructed infill.

But another way of finding them is to create your list and then look at each property address on your list in Google Street view.  

I end up coming in to work at 7am on a Saturday just for this company to give 8 drugs screens to the crew in order to get into the plant. 

I was horrified to see the burn marks in the rugs of one of the tenants who apparently had a drug habit as well.

Another concern I have about WV is the drug epidemics that appear to hitting the State really hard.Amad