Amazing properties and endless oportunities . i am now in denver wich is a hot real estate market . i drove from miami to ohio and from ohio to colorado and i saw a lot of oportunities and i am very glad i left the most SE corner of our country. i will be selling my property in miami for about 60,000$ of profit plus my personal savings , i should have a decent liquid fund to buy up 2 or even 3 oportunities in the midwest.

Chris,If you own the property and you self manage, you don't need to be a licensed broker.The legalities are endless when you self manage from Lead Based paint disclosures to fair housing so please educate yourself.Good luck!

We gave the entire home fresh paint, cleaned up floors and ripped up carpet (it has the original hardwood), and added new carpet to the living room and a runner to the stairs.

@Steven HassettI would recommend approaching an Uber/ Lyft driver or Instacart runner and pitch the following:Using Deal Machine with 2 users license (you can track their route in real time while you are at your office) Set up a pay plan where you pay them $1 for each distressed house they log and photograph into Deal Machine

Also being surrounded by like-minded professionals creates an atmosphere you almost can't get enough of as the knowledge is endless.

In this way, you free yourself to endless possibilities in real estate.Oh and it's a great book!

While it won't meet the needs of most sellers, it certainly has a place and should be understood, but the applications are almost endless as to how financing might be used.

However, the options are endless and putting as many tools in your toolbox will be the best way you can go. 

Endless emails whether it was instate or out of state.

A "website to generate leads" could be as simple as a single no-navigation squeeze page with a two-field form to capture contact information from potential sellers and/or buyers.It could also be as complex as a multi-tiered content marketing site replete with an endless array of information and actions a visitor can explore.You MUST determine EXACTLY what you want your site to do and ONLY then build the site such that every pixel is dedicated to that singular final goal.I am in the same boat and have decided that I'm going the route of creating a very simple (but beautiful) landing page with a short form to attract potential motivated sellers to leave their contact information.