I just remembered what one of the terms of that contract were -- that the owner opted into the PM's online rent collection system where everyone paid online for free or paid something like $10 extra a month for non-online payments.

Lots of great resources here to lean on in finding your first house hack.

Just to give you a little background about the property:2 family house in decent area in the Brinx fully occupied, $0 (rent roll), absentee/tired landlord, owner owns the property free and clear, owner hasn't collected rent in 15 years, property is current with taxes and water and sewage.Should I followup aggressively - after all she did verbally agree to a purchase price - or should I give her a little time then followup?

You need to do a lot more reading on BP and other resources before jumping in.

It would be a good resource to start here. 

One of our top Associates is out in CA so the strategy works quite well in CA.We always try to get a spread between what we have to pay out and what we collect from our tenant/buyer. 

Hello,My name is Andy and I’m here because I found BiggerPockets to be an invaluable resource to learn about real estate investing.

Having that resource is invaluable.  

I remember before I got involved in real estate I used the podcast to collect as many ideas as possible, but when the time actually came I had serious planning to do. 

Going to be hard to fix that water heater or get unit rent ready and pay the mortgage and then go through extended vacancy during the holiday........ and even harder if you don't have the resources to pull through.