Yeah, I had one broker actually call and pretend that I'd agreed to bring an "executor's deed" to my hearing for my mother's probate (they get the court filings, which are public), and say that I need to be sure to have it in hand at the hearing, and some other garbage basically presenting herself as a legal expert - I reported her to the state bar as someone practicing law without a license and reported her to the state realtor's board, too.There are serious consequences for people using predatory techniques to prey on people who are grieving or aren't savvy about real estate deals or who are uneducated or seniors, etc. 

Your technique of bombasting the opposition with lots of information that has no merit, followed by lots of deflection and posturing, may also work - as long as nobody else in the courtroom knows more than you.Unfortunately, this does actually happen.  

Just use the broken record technique - just keep repeating that same sentence every time she starts in again. 

With all the different marketing techniques available to us today.

Another technique is looking at their car... if it's full of junk inside or on it's last legs, odds are there will be problems.  

Swanny must spend some time staying on top of the manager, or his properties could crash before his next visit.The beauty of the real estate business is that you can mix and match techniques to come up with a business that works for you.  

If u still want to do this how about getting a property manager in your local area this way your kind of hands off and just observe the things they do..if u want to be successful immulate techniques they do.Again this is just way I see things.

This is why a property manager vs. being friends w/ tenants tends to be the preferred technique I think. 

Consider telling them to keep you in mind, or maybe apply wholesaler techniques, as wholesalers can come up with creative options sometimes to help bump them over the selling edge.

Dave Ramsey's debt-payoff program is second to none and a technique that 99% of the population would do well to follow.