My recent yellow letter campaign has gotten off to a great start, however I have one lead that I am struggling to deal with...The property is in decent shape, could use perhaps $5-7k in tidy up work, but could probably scrape by as-is for a rental.

I have to pay off a personal loan and credit card debt first.

Instead, try creating a personal web page and put together a new business card (hirebythehour.com can be a cheap effective way to get a great design).  

Churches, alumni, fraternal & social work agencies, or organizations typically, along with thousands of arts, education, cultural & industry specific associations make a lot of effort to donate, or subsidize housing---in particular. if your mortgage is $ 300K at 6% apr using $ 2,500 a month in the first few years nearly $ 18K will be deductible. if you're renting to some tenants certain programs will filter far more inducements to both you and the tenant. obviously there are reasons that you'd most likely want to own units that cost $ 60K and rent for $ 1,500 a month to make even more sense out of these opportunities. when i was 23 my best friend a newly mented attorney, who lived with me pursued buying a 2 family home that the City of NY's Housing Development Preservation (HPD) offered us for $ 1. it needed about $ 150K of improvements. we were supposed to borrow the $ 150K at 1% interest under a very aggressive renovation schedule that returned the property to it's fully taxed  assessed value in 90 to 120 days; or we'd have to pay 2% apr for the sums we elected to borrow from an HPD aligned lender. my income was 3 times the lawyers; and i wanted him to live in another 26 unit apartment building we were developing under an even more lucrative program that allowed us to borrow $ 500K at 1%, if we ("I") put down $ 25K. i wound up renovating the apartment building on my credit cards and we walked away from the 2 family: due to the lawyer's reluctance to move into the apartment building. i actually felt that having him in my own apartment really confused the women that visited me.

I do not think you can go wrong with gift cards.

Get the women's signature and attempt to contact and close the ex-boyfriend myself.I am getting closer to closed deals, even if it is just a few percentage points at a time.Next step to work on my business is to refine my website so that I start getting phone calls from that and, also to order business cards.

does anyone know if LandlordStation.com offers credit card payments from tenants?

They think I should still give her a gift card.

should I give them some discount in rent or give them gift card of some sort or should not do either?

I have 22000 dollars in student loan debt, i recently had a credit card go to collections but paid in full in January of this year, but other than that i have no consumer debt.