Many of the techniques they use, driving for dollars, mailing campaigns, bandit signs, are your best bet for identifying and contacting owners of properties that are going underwater and may be looking for a way out.

The purpose of Real Estate School is to teach you the LAW, not to sell.As a previous poster to accurately mentioned, you need sales skills, scripts, dialogues and techniques to carry the day! 

An example would be if you hear about a new sales technique from someone on a podcast but they're main clientele consists of higher class white collar individuals while you're trying to sell to lower class, blue collar individuals.

Does anyone have any recommendations to cover it, paint it or maybe a better technique to remove it so we can move the house into 2021?

The cognitive dysfunction necessary to forget the actual terms of the lease has probably already happened upstairs for this tenant.

One technique in a fast market, says Rachel Valentino, of Valentino & Associates LLC with Keller Williams Realty in Washington, D.C., is to agree to an inspection where you:Can walk away from the contract if there’s a major issue, like foundation trouble.Can’t negotiate with the seller over any issues that arise.This arrangement appeals to sellers because they won’t be hit with thousands of dollars in repairs, and it gives you an advantage in a competitive field.Similarly, if you’re competing against all-cash offers, which don’t require an appraisal, you can waive the appraisal contingency.

I mean not the end of the world but I have for sure heard Guru's use this technique and gloss over what happens when they dont pay.  

There's few different techniques for appraising property.

Long time listener, first time poster :D My husband and I assumed management of my father-in-laws rental property portfolio a few years ago and have since been working hard to educate ourselves, bring it up to date and apply BiggerPockets techniques and formulas to everything.

When the owner of the asset is also the owner of the crypto company, I think the transaction can't be used as a valid example of the technique gaining traction.