Here are some other things that will cost you money over the long-run of holding a rental:- Capital Costs (replace roof, HVAC system, etc)- Turnover Costs (cost to clean carpets, paint, etc when tenants leave)- Rent Loss (sometimes tenants just stop paying and it takes time to get them out)- Concessions (sometimes you need to offer incentives -- like first month free -- to get tenants)- Utilities (during the vacant periods)- Lawn Care- Accounting / Legal (assuming those things are important to you :)- Advertising (if you need to pay to find tenants)- Property Management (if you ever want someone else to manage for you)I'm sure there are others I'm missing, but those are the big ones...

I have a good website already, and I'm looking to get going but I'm having a difficult time getting them to go to my website and advertise my website, I know you are not supposed to post a link to your website on CL, because it will get taken down.

You don't really advertise for private funding.

I advertise for cash buyers once a week or so with a link to a simple page for them to fill out basic info.

The problem is that alot of the seller's in this small town aren't educated about these types of deals. 3-4 hours over in Charlotte (a big city), it's advertised on Craigslist all the time.

As a result, not many RE brokers will allow their agents to use LO transactions.The press has been so negative towards LO's in general, that most people have stopped using the term lease option in their advertising and instead use seller financing.

Do you think Google+ will take away advertising dollars from Facebook, or just force agencies to increase budgets to compensate for new platform?

We went to buy cabinets advertised off craigslist, for use in a flip, and it turned out the owner was being foreclosed on and they were selling everything.

But mostly start analyzing properties that are advertised for sale.

You are correct the new listings are very picked over.I also troll and advertise on Craigslist but that has worked better for finding tenants than finding properties.