For example our local gas and electric company (Baltimore Gas and Electric) has a program called the Automatic Change Name program that PMCs can enroll in.

Set it up on a system like apartments.com that automatically collects the rent for you and find a good handyman that can help when you need it, which will not be often.

This is to protect yourself so that if a second offense occurs you can automatically move to evict should you choose to.

It was clear to both parties, with email exchanges confirming that the end date is July 15th and that there will not be renewal of lease.However, I forgot to stop the automatic rent collection through Zillow, resulting in the tenant paying the full July rent on July 10th, which has already been transferred to my bank account.

When I followed up and asked for a specific reason (thinking it might require an additional payment towards principle to put me under the threshold) they wrote back informing me that investment properties do not qualify for automatic termination and that PMI will remain for the life of the loan and if I want to remove it I can look into refinancing. 

Would we be automatically classified as real estate dealers in the eyes of the IRS for this one flip?

Then you can get it automatically set up so that you will get the  property back without having to go through a And don't beat up on yourself because this deal didn't work perfectly. 

It was clear to both parties, with email exchanges confirming that the end date is July 15th and lease won't be renewed.However, I forgot to stop the automatic rent collection through Zillow, resulting in the tenant paying the full July rent on July 10th, which has already been transferred to my bank account.

Most PMC software is set up for electronic rent payments by tenants that automatically updates rent ledgers. 

We don't need to use anything besides our PMS that connects directly with the lock, and automatically populates the guest's code into the lock.