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A document that says you won't tell anyone else about the deal+3 - a fantasy the "seller" is engaging in where they think they're going to get a 3% fee for forwarding an e-mail to you.

I'm now receiving offers in the mail to reduce my CC debt.

Tenants are obligated to follow all rules of the lease so if they are causing damage or problems and it violates the lease - you can evict them like any other tenant or notify them of the violation and many times they will promptly comply since they risk loosing their section 8 assistance.

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Your lease should say that you are able to enter the home at any reasonable time for maintenance and in this case I am assuming you will only need to have the sprinkler guy in the garage to test the system.You should make arrangements with the sprinkler guy yourself and notify the tenant of the time they are coming.

if i were to keep doing a direct mail campaign, are there other people i should target besides absentee?