Through the years as a real estate investor, I have always searched for deals or, more importantly, motivated sellers that need to sell their property. My search started with many marketing techniques including mailing out postcards to boarded up properties, hanging bandit signs, sticking magnetic signs to my car, advertising in the newspapers and on websites (I Buy Houses), and even using code enforcement lists naming sub-standard and condemned properties. I had varying degrees of success with each, but my most successful marketing campaign by far has been direct marketing to properties in probate.

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