This isn't a knock against these banks.  

If you are a more direct person, you can also try knocking on their door if they are local.

Get knocked down 10 times, get up 11.

Knock on the door if you feel safe.

Does anyone know if utilizing a marketing campaign (direct mail, door knocking, etc) will be beneficial enough to implement considering I only need one house for the next few months?

@Brent Coombs@Paul BowersI am not knocking using Percentage of rent when you ALREADY own the Investment.

You may also have luck going directly to the property knocking on some of the safer looking doors and asking who they pay rent to.Put together a contract to buy the property for a low price because the way you describe it the current owner will probably be happy to be rid of it. 

(Partly because New Western and others snaps them up, then marks them up to the point they no often longer make sense :-) ).That's not a knock on you or New Western - I'm familiar with you guys and your business model, and agree that it's completely legitimate.

We've done a couple of marketing strategies such as magnetic bandit signs on our cars, direct mail to N.O.D's, and soon we will begin a door knocking / door hanger campaign to follow up our direct mail to N.O.D's.

Let's just say that even with all wheel drive, I get a running start.3 days after we moved in (February 28), we had a major wind storm that knocked a neighbor's tree over and took out our power lines.