Spend 30 minutes a day on Bigger Pockets by connecting with “colleagues,” perusing blogs and videos, and engaging with others on the forums: http://www.biggerpockets.com/meet 7.

Direct mail provides an engaging, dynamic, and effective way to market to potential sellers.

If you get a chance post a picture of yourself, people will engage with you more.

There is a West Texas Investor club meeting at 6:45 this evening in Odessa at Johnny's Bar B Q, 2201 Kermit Hwy. if u have time u will be exposed to players in the business.

Or should I go the traditional way and engage a realtor to find good deals? 

When I do it it on my Windows PC it goes to my download folder, and I then move it to my MP3 player.  

We've ran surveys to motivated sellers and ran extensive tests on our InvestorCarrot websites to see where people engage on the web page... and their primary concerns (in this order from our research) was 1.

I bet a lot of investors have seen that home over the years, but you took the time to engage and make contact.  

I'm a few hours south of you in a very different market.Setting up key word alerts as a great way to stay engaged on BiggerPockets, getting notifications of topics and geographies that interest you.

I personally run team players from various companies.