This will eliminate $70/month I pay in PMI.

If you eliminate properties of that age from your search your options will likely be pretty limited though.

Are there really more people that go out of their way to eliminate pet friendly rentals than people that are looking for pet friendly rentals? 

Whether they do a good job eliminating bogus ESA verifications may be less important than if the perspective tenant believes they do a good job eliminating bogus ESA verifications.  

Based on our experience, we eliminate more than half of these properties.

I do not claim that they do a great job of eliminating bogus ESA. 

So if you're wanting to exit to a change soon then you need to be laser focused on eliminating it. 

Don't trust anyone too much, eliminate as much risk as possible, budget accordingly, and don't be cheap with your team and you can do alright.  

I ended up putting high efficiency units and electric water heaters eliminating the use of venting an gas appliances through a chimney.

We have been using RTM's in the Philippines for most of the data entry but the more we grow it just doesn't seem efficient and there is still a big risk for the human error of manually entering data and most of their work could be eliminated with Sage Intacct or Oracle New Suite but AppFolio is not an open API and they told us they aren't interested in letting us pay for the integration to be developed as they look at them as competitors- which just makes no sense to me.