I've been at this for a while and I can sell most of my properties using simple techniques that don't include real estate agents.

I have been using this technique for multiple properties for several years without any problem, ever. 

.- Vet your tenants - look on the forums here for excellent tenant vetting techniques and stick to them (avoid friends and family). - Buy in the best neighborhood you can - this helps to ensure an easy resale should you need to exit quickly.House hacking on an FHA loan can yield amazing cash-on-cash returns and set you up for financial freedom if you start out right.

Questionable backlinks, and your standard on page SEO.Now me.. the obsessed freak, I devisemy own SEO techniques all white hat and spend about 15 hours a day working on my SEO.

Happy to share the systems and techniques that work in New Jersey and help map out a plan that can get you on your path way to FI.

Rich Rich,In your book, you professed to using some creative techniques that are now passe - assuming assumable mortgages is one that comes to mind as somewhat obsolete.

mailing to every address in a neighborhood is not a good idea unless you know a variety of different techniques in addition to wholesaling. 

That's a classic risk versus reward argument, and there are arguments in favor of either technique.  

@Michael Haas I'm guessing so because even the landlord tenant act says "You may have heard that it is unlawful to evict someone in the winter but this is not true."

California is very boom/bust so his technique has proven itself over the course of 3 real estate cycles now.Another author named Robert Campbell wrote a book called Timing the Real Estate Market that you might find useful.