For instance, the seller is selling for $100K.  

For instance you can find Michael Quarles role playing where he negotiations, but he is very aggressive on the phone so unless this your personality it won't work.It won't take long, just be yourself.  

For instance, the company I work for will not allow us to bring a television into the building without having it brought in by a union member.  

I own a large park out of state and there are times, last quarter for instance, when there was no money left over to distribute. 

I get real estate goes up in value, etc. but man, sometimes I look at the money I spend in transaction costs buying and selling, contractors for repairs, tenant maintenance, excise taxes, other taxes, taxes ON the taxes that I'm the governments sucker propping up the economy.Take my primary residence for instance.

In this instance above I never received the package from the broker before another buyer came along at full price.

It can be exhausting (and demoralizing hearing "no" again and again), but I've found leads I simply couldn't have any other way.For instance, I met a man who owns 5 single family houses on the other side of the city from the neighborhood he lives in.

But I am fairly certain it doesn't work like that in any instance since they are not providing to a charity/non-profit.Now if you are talking about funds to use on your next home purchase, then no it cannot be counted as a gift.

@Lawrence Cox III there are very few instances I can think of where hard money is a good idea...use it as a lender of last resort...and if you are going to re-fi to get out from under a hard money loan, make sure your figures on ARV are rock solid.

Does having property management take away pressure from having extensive knowledge on the law of being a landlord?