I came across a vacant home that was advertised as a 4 bedroom, 3bath, sauna room, steam shower, barn, inground pool, pump house, screen house, 2 brick fireplaces, 2 sheds with over 5000 sq ft of acreage.

The way we do it:In nice houses: tile in the kitchen and bathroom and either stained hardwood floors or carpet (at least one step above builders grade) in living room and bedrooms.In less nice houses: vinyl in kitchen in bathroom (we used to do allure but it lost favor with us when we realized spot replacements really aren't as easy as advertised and it's substantially more expensive than vinyl) and carpet or stained hardwoods in the living rooms and bedrooms.

First off let me say thank you to all the members of BP.A big thank you, I have especially learned from @Sharon Vornholt @michaelq @aaronmazzrillo @jerrypuckett I want to be sure my advertising $$ don't go to waist.Budget:  $1200/monthPlan:  Simple Yellow Letter w/postcard follow up 1x per month

Currently I am using Bing PPC, Website advertising, Word of mouth.  

Using contracts  to broker real estate is illegal in Florida unless you are a licensee you cannot legally advertise or Market properties you do not own this is a violation of Florida law and a third degree felony.

Many people have gone online to advertise for free.  

I am currently a billing coordinator at an advertising firm, with low personal expenses, and good credit.

In the past we have advertised with magazine publications such as Realty411 and Personal Real Estate Investor Magazine. 

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.

Here are a few: Advertised and took buyer there before I had it in contract, filled out the contract wrong, used a contract I found online, tried doing a double closing with no transactional funding, never got the rent or security credits from the sellers, mis-matched the buy and sell contracts so I got stuck in the middle paying $1300 for the title insurance.