my name is melvin estrict and i live in alabama although i grew up on the east coast (go giants!) and i have been in the real estate finance business since 1995. i have owned a mortgage brokerage as well as a property...

Also, Menards (regional) offers an 11% off sale several times a year.Buy gift cards (arbitrage) - You can easily find gift cards with a discount (i.e. you pay $90 for a $100 gift card) using a coupon code or purchasing through a gift card exchange.

They email the rewards to you and then you spend them like a gift card.

Cameron,I do agree with you, that was a pretty awesome gift to give someone out here on Bigger Pockets.

So they must work...And there may have been a day that I too thought less of people who used them however the older I get the more I realize that I don’t have the energy to worry about something as trivial as a signs placement...I would rather spend my free time enjoying the gifts and rewards of real estate investing and am satisfied that for some they are a nuisance and for others they are their marketing media to success.We have much more things to worry about; Secret Service and Hookers and Presidential Candidates and Mistresses...

Posting is a gift to others.

A few examples, new water heater, $600 gift card to Sears to buy new dishwasher, countless visits by plumbers to unclog drains, new springs on garage doors, multiple visits by HVAC companies to fix broken AC's in the middle of summer (when it's like 110 degrees), etc.

And, that company AdvantageU sent me a gift card too.

He can then choose to gift it to her if he wishes, and that would be fair.  

I have bought gifts for the agents I use from time to time.