I'm looking for lead generation techniques as well.

No... process servers use skip-tracing techniques to find their targets.

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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.

Technique.

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

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. 

My own technique is to do about 5 - 8% of rent goes towards maintanence cost per month.