Honestly the more socially awkward the students the better.  

When you and others know someone socially you can get a gauge of who they are as a person in the areas that you interact with them. 

These techniques have been taught for years, but I don't know of any guru who has updated their material to incorporate the new restrictions imposed by the new law. 

For sellers: direct mail, bandit signs, networking with other wholesalers, Craigslist, social media/Internet marketing, telling everyone you come in contact with what you do, etc etc For buyers: Local investors club, call for rent signs, mail to rental license holders in your state, Craigslist, networking with other real estate professionals, etc

Instead of throwing away those calls, some people suggested making offers over the phone to see if they will take the number.Are there any reliable sites or techniques I can use to come up with a pretty accurate offer.

do you have a technique for constructing the offer if you don't have MLS access?

Naturally they are going to need help in a lot of areas such as business planning, social media, public relations, and strategy in order to get the word out to the highest number of investors who will ultimately fund their deals.

If the leads that come in from other listings don't work out for those listings they can spin them off to your listing. in addition to that most good listing agents will have paid ads etc on those type of sites that will put your listing in featured positioning instead of getting lost in the long list of other listings.If you plan to continue to do it yourself here is a list of websites that can help get your home more exposure:- social media- FB, twitter, linkedin, google+-forums- local forums in your area, as well as real estate forums like BP, trulia, Zillow,-posting sites- CL, backpage, ebay,findmyroof.com, classifiedads.com, realrentals.com, rentalads.comUse syndicating websites like postlets.com that will send it to:ZillowHotPadsYahooFrontdoorZillow MobileHotPads MobileBackpageByOwnerMLSEnormoOodleTrovitZumperLovelyTruliaOthers-List it on the MLS, a good RE agent will have their own site/blog to add it to.Here is a video explaining why we are able to lease out our rental properties quickly to a qualified tenant in Vegas within 30 days.

Make sure it has borrower info, social security numbers and loan numbers and that it gives you permission to discuss all things related to the loan (balance, reinstatement amount, escrow balance, foreclosure status) etc.

His will likely be 20k or more.This is going to be a buy and hold rental, and I'm comfortable with the cashflow potential, however just looking at techniques on how to help him understand that a) his unit repairs will cost significantly more than mine which is why I was able to pay 89k for mine and cannot do the same for his and b) the alternative option for him to fix and sell will not be worthwhile.