IE, our tenant moved in on the original agreed upon sale closing date/ leasing date, and we paid the seller a few hundred dollars for the couple of extra business days it took us to close (effectively giving them the rent for those days). 

It's pricier than cold calling, but MUCH more time effective, and great if you have the budget.

There’s many ways to do that as long as I’m moving forward towards that in the most effective way at the moment then I am accomplishing my goal.

There are more ways, but these are the most effective in my opinion :) 

@Joshua Myers I would be selective with Franklinton.

The fines for just advertising those services are up to 10,000 the first offense. as for finding new customers, word of mouth Is by far the best way to gain new accounts thats also cost effective. 

I’ve found it to be the single most effective read for starting out. https://www.biggerpockets.com/...

What he/she did was selecting three comps and adjusted their values based on the differences between my property and these comps.

Reliable, timely, cost effective and responsive 

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