One example that I use is to match their breathing and their speaking tone to build faster rapport. 

Just need water and hopefully septic and some concrete in the ground with a little acreage and space to breath.  

I say she has lived there for 2 years. 10 minutes later Jane doe calls me screaming that I'm going to kill her son who has an asthma breathing machine and she doesn't have electricity to use.

Sometimes you can buy out their listing especially if the agent needs some bucks now, maybe half the option money.I would find an agent who will feed you the expired listings, thus no listing in effect at the moment, and a seller that couldn't sell, but may open to a SLO, the basic test is are they even open to renting it at the moment, if they are not open to that, save your breath on the SLO.

We should be able to handle this with breathing room.

Decline them, take a deep breath and wait for more people to come through."

Take a breath and good luck.

In the same breath we have had some success with off shore contractors completing great work for really low prices.

I live by these words, breath it eat it be it!

Surely breathing life back into these areas would be a good thing, right?