Occasionally if I am in the car and know I have a long drive ahead of me I will engage with a wholesaler. 

If your tenants stream pirated movies, post illegal content or engage in illicit online business, you will be the first point of contact from the cable company or authorities. 

They seem to want the "Easy Button" like investing is the same as a social media posting..

Your mother is obviously making an emotional decision, so any appeal with numbers is not going to do any good.So, you can change her mind only by finder her a deal that engages her emotions more than the one she's thinking of now.

In a seller's market you need to identify the social and economic underlying issues of a distressed property owner or property.Now, as to the 70% rule (guideline).

This is a case where engaging the services of a good attorney who specializes in landlord-tenant law is necessary.

For the most part It seems pretty harmless to let a tenant of 9 years to become your friend on social media.

They might do a couple of social media posts about it, but I wouldn't expect a mass mailing that would basically parrot everything that's been in the news, on TV and the radio for the past 3 years.

You can then look them up and call, send direct mail, or find them via social.

Traditional banks will not lend to someone without a social security number, that is as far as I know.