Its the best thing to keep in touch with people, develop leads, and to tell people thanks.It has a back office CRM that allows you to automate campaigns (great for wholesaling) and send chocolates and/or gift cards along with nice cards to people you would like to thank.sendoutcards.com/why-sendoutcards/

But maybe a nice bouquet of flowers if it's a women, for instance, or a gift card to a restaurant, like mentioned, or a box of nice chocolate and such.

I like to eat chocolates, everyone does.

It helps prevent you from losing a property due to unexpected expenses or pinching your lifestyle by forcing you to make up low/negative cash flow.Equity is where you will make the real money.

The servicers dump the non performing ones to the big mean servicers at a discount, sometimes several times as servicers are in financial pinch. 

Many of those who have purchased Short-Term Rentals (STRs) in recent years are already feeling the pinch and will be forced to sell or convert to Long-Term Rentals (LTRs).

Nevertheless I'll pinch those pennies where I can.One nice thing is Oregon has no sales tax.

You're going to give them a gift card or some chocolates and they say "clean it up and keep it down, I'm trying to run a business here" (obviously I am paraphrasing).

Empty Lots in Half-Built Neighborhoods: Builders developing neighborhoods will feel the pinch and most likely stop building their in-progress nabes until rates change.

Since my STR is in Canada, in the Winter I leave out hot chocolate packets, also get those from Costco.