Make sure she can afford it, do it, and then buy a lottery ticket while your luck is running high.

when this shows up in the mail, future lottery ticket.

Side note:  It's probably the same mindset people have living pay check to pay check and winning a million dollar lottery - it isn't a bottomless figure.  

It's like the lottery saying "You've got to be in it to win it"  Same with real estate "You have to be in it to start succeeding in it". 

On the other hand, it's a well known fact that most wealth in this country is first generation, because future generations usually blow the money since they didn't earn it (like lottery winners).

Anyone can win the lottery and then end up broke through mismanagement.

My guess was lottery tickets and tall boys,  After a year he would not have been able to pay rent with that type of habit.  

They are like playing the lottery. 

I am kind of surprised at the lack of motivation from my calls, as many are trying to win the lottery by selling me their house.Granted, I am mailing one of the hottest markets in TN...east Nashville, where many rehabbers are mailing and are picking up houses, only to tear them down and build new ones...which makes me wonder if this is the right market to mail since I am not a rehabber.Overall, it has been a fairly demoralizing effort so far, seemingly an uphill battle to get real motivated sellers.

Buy lottery tickets?