Some towns require a nightly online form to be filled out for any non-residents who are parking their cars (this is easily automated from an operational standpoint).As the MTR market becomes saturated over time, those who have separated themselves from the rest of the "competition" will continue to perform well by having an outstanding listing and all the MTR-specific amenities.

 - Podio has excellent automated workflows.  

If he's he only one in the area, you could try to do it yourself by making everything automated (such as e-locks, internet, security, laundry, etc.) 

With that in mind, which approach do you think works best:1.Use property management software (PMS) as an intermediary to automate payments and fee splits while reducing legal risk and simplifying operations?

Software automates what you already know (hopefully) - for some folks they get in trouble because they assume the software "knows" and they don't bother to learn it.

This is a very labor intensive process for most big box skip trace companies because it cannot be automated.

I'm an IT guy myself and clearly not against automated systems, but that can misguide you if you don't know much yourself.

Preaching to the choir - god please pray that servicing can be automated and improved with the emergence of AI.

Is there an automated process I am not aware of?

Sometimes, these syndicators who are actively in process of wiping out investor’s life savings, even brag about how automated their businesses are and how they don’t have to work!