She is just using the property manager as a substitute for her deceased husband.

It could be a good substitute for a landlord that doesn't return calls for a reference check.

I've substituted with 'animal', or canine/feline when I get specific in this ESA, support and therapy animal world we are playing in now.  

The office manager cc'd the substitute housing counselor.

All of the lists and software you can put together will not be a substitute for doing. 

There is no substitute for following a good screening process.

My wife was a substitute teacher and I am a lumber wholesaler.

There's never a substitute for learning first hand, through experience.  

@Melanie Hartmann I would work as a substitute teacher while tryin got start a wholesaling career.

As a side note, I did a research project on lotteries back when I was an undergraduate, and as it turned out most of the states simply eventually substituted regular expenditure for lottery money - in other words, all the benefits such as increased money for education et al were never realized since the states just used the money that had been allocated before the lottery to do tax cuts or spend on other projects.