Zillow will also offer climate history of a property alongside custom tailored insurance policies and carriers. 

I get the 'professional silence', and have been told imperiously by other landlords that I should just not respond and ignore rambling, and responses definitely encourage more.However I find I have tenants that demand attention, if I don't answer they continue to get louder and angrier, and begin trying to come up with ways to force me to answer and get involved.  

Of course, take this advice with a grain of salt, as everyone’s situation is different.I would encourage you to keep pursuing this with everything you have, but also reinvest the profits from your flips.

If the tool has merit, then build it for yourself, and it will pay for itself on that basis alone.If it will not pay for itself (& time counts as a cost) when the only customer is yourself, it's probably been done a thousand times, and/or isn't as useful as you think. 

I know that I can go in, in either platform, and refund for days as needed without involving the "customer service" people.

Any thoughts on which way to go because we don't need the break in alarm but we definitely want video cameras to try and encourage the people doing rotten things to stay away.  

Our title companies customer service departments are second to none all of this was free for me..

Hopefully this encouragement helps, but welcome to the community, lots of a really smart and great people here. 

Your tenants are customers, properties are your product and reputation is your brand.

Anyway, any advice or worlds of encouragement you could shoot my way would be great, as invetsors have always  told me “the first one is the hardest”I look forward to connecting with you all and look forward to learning and growing in this business !