Pick out target area that you think you will purchase.

I know it will be slim pickings to find something at a reasonable price around here.

Your competition Is mostly people wanting to buy instead of rent coupled with flood of investors that want to pick up something in Austin.

Direct mail (don't do that), cold calling (don't do that), Bandit signs (definitely don't do that).What I am suggesting here, is for you to pick a markeitng venue that makes logical sense.None of the ones listed above makes any sense.The first thing you need to do is be ready when a potential lead does hit you.Mind you..

Pick a market you would be willing to own 2-4 properties in with the goal of having them professionally managed. 

Hi-Looking to pick the brain of anybody in a seattle secondary market who has tenants on commercial lease. 

I did that and picked brains, as well as chatted online with current Airbnb hosts.

Pick a few markets get a good idea of exactly what you’re looking for a pull.

There is a big marketplace for used appliances so you can always sell them, I understand your concern about them sitting, the dryer could sit indefinitely and the washer would be the main item of concern that I'd just sell Like others have said, you ultimately picked these tenants out of the 50 applicants you had.

Then after a year or more of this... seek out and befriend an experienced real estate investor, bring them as much value as I could, get into their world, learn as much from them as possible, partner on some deals, hustle, probably fail, pick myself up, probably fail again, pick myself back up again, continue learning, continue hustling, continue to slowly succeed until I master the process and live an absolutely epic life.