Maybe more so b/c I've personally gone through about half of them and either indirectly deal with them or heard the stories from other investors. 

Indirectly, we benefit as she is the eyes and ears of the neighbourhood and keeps and watches our (and all the other) properties.

Since the availability of the house will be limited an agent open house may be a way to indirectly reach a lot of potential buyers at one time. 

What if they ban evictions (directly with a law or indirectly by simply keeping the courts closed.)Except for the 1% of the people here who pay all cash for every property I’m probably one of the least leveraged posters and it’s still concerning.

That being said, you can indirectly have this conversation by having very strict income standards for your properties. 

There are two types of operating costs; direct costs and indirect costs.

Seller was in direct contact with her and there were liens stated in the house.

IRS rules are very clear: as “Disqualified Person” you are not allowed to provide any services to your IRA nor receive any direct or indirect benefit from the IRA. 

In direct mail, this would be sending out as many mailers as possible.

By raising or lowering short-term interest rates, monetary policy affects the housing market, and in turn the overall economy, directly or indirectly through the effects of interest rates on 1) the user cost of capital, 2) expectations of future house-price movements, 3) housing supply, 4) standard wealth effects from house prices, 5) balance sheet, credit-channel effects on consumer spending, and 6) balance sheet, credit-channel effects on housing demand.If a bear market emerges, then we should expect home devaluation nationally of 20% to 30% or more in markets overvalued relative to wages and rents.