Professional real estate activity means any of the following actions, when engaged in for another and for compensation Note the phrase "When engaged in for another."

This started out as a question asking advice for how to best phrase this conversation...but there is no good way to tell someone that they need to find a new place to live.

Use a disposable email, as  @Steve Babiak suggested, and also require them to manually put a specific phrase in the subject line.

Joseph, You need to be careful how you phrase your comments.  1031 Exchanges are about proving intent, but not intent to hold for a period of time. 

I would phrase it major repairs instead of capital expenditures, unless it was a commercial property, but they should be able to figure out what you mean!

When using the phrase "buying for cash", what does that actually exactly mean?

That phrase was invented by companies that sell mailer services.

@Brian Burke - Sorry for the confusion about how I phrased my depreciation comment; I knew what I meant...   

These keywords you will most likely be bidding on are phrases like “sell my house fast” or “Need cash for my house” etc….Now you can place a bid like $20, so let's say a google user searches “sell my house fast”, which is labeled as their search term.

Not sure I'm much help when it comes to strategy other than encouraging you to study the concept of "house hacking" (search this phrase on BP).