If you wanted to do this more actively, you could offer a gift card or discount on management.

The ability to work hard is a gift - especially when it comes to working for someone super successful. 

I'm thinking of doing something extreme for my mail piece, like a video card or big gift box or something.

If the partner is gifting them to you, then disclose that.  

A house that cheap that can be rented is a gift!

I just finished reading, "the travelers gift" by Andy Andrews...

At least you will not need to do a  'cash for keys', gifting a couple of 1.75 litre bottles of her favorite beverage maybe enough to entice her to vacate.A good friend of ours (Roanoke, Virginia) had to present an eviction notice to a very large lady in a MH rental on a 1 acre rural lot, (I was to witness the hand delivery).When we got there the lady was cooling off in a kids paddle pool with an umbrella & nothing else. 

I currently work as director-level major gifts fundraiser for a non-profit here, but am hoping to parlay some of my skills to a career in real estate.My mother has worked as a real estate agent for a majority of my life (in TX), even starting her own company / brokerage six years ago, so I've grown up on the fringes of the real estate community.

If they have 5% of the money that is their own, (Not Gifted) then there are products that are available for conventional lending.Yet there DTI ratio will be a little less forgiving.

A wise investor once told me that below market rents are like me giving my tenants a gift each month.