you can make a good marketing campaign with $500/month, but like anything, you should put together a marketing plan, be consistent with the plan and track your leads.

however, is there a law says that real estate agents could not buy the property that they are advertising ??

I guess the concern for me of oversimplifying is that I don't want to necessarily mislead anyone into believing I'm just a person who's interested in living in the neighborhood.But at the same time, I don't want to advertise that I'm an investor either.

I'm a newbie Wholesaler who is finally on the verge of launching his first Yellow Letters (1,000+) campaign in addition to increasing Bandit signs from 20 to 200 in the next two weeks.

I like the pocket areas of Columbus but I want to promote myself to some of the more affluent areas which will require direct mail campaigns.

Is anyone else having a slow response in the summer with Direct Mail Probate Campaigns?

I began with a direct mail campaign.

Assignments are generally cheaper though than double closings.If you can find an attorney/title company that will double close (if you have a local REIA join or at least get a monthly news letter and look for title companies/closing attorney's and call to see if they will do this as they are the ones most likely that will and the ones at our local REIA advertise they do double closings) there are a few things you can do to minimize your costs.

My wife and I wrote 500 yellow letters by hand and I created a cheap website on Wix and started a Google Adwords campaign to drive traffic to it.  

The handful of advertising platforms are consolidating and thus chage is coming quickly.