Or just seed for grass.

No matter what you do, sod, seed, cover with those moisture particles that supposedly help, what it comes down to is tenants do not water lawns.  

.), coming up with a seed capital strategy, analyzing a market (i.e. looking at the MLS, etc.).

You are also weeding out the bad seeds because if they know they have bad credit, they won't apply and lose $30. 

@Mary Jay If you are negative cashflow on your rental properties, should you consider selling them for seed money to 1031 exchange into something that is not cashflow negative. 

Quite often, with the first contact, you are simply planting a seed.  

If they have scraped clean the yard, have them heavily seed it, at THEIR expense, and water. 

You can use that as seed-capital to fund a business(-entity structure) which can generate income and pay you a salary.

Assuming we stay in the game long enough, there could eventually be enough for them to use the money to seed their own real estate investments, and we would coach them through the process.  

In my opinion, depending on your ambitions, once you have some seed capital, using the Brrrr method is a self sustaining method of acquiring assets.