We can all agree that this real estate game is about consistent action and at times if our actions aren't successful we / I tend to be less productive and even stall at times.If you're like me, let's be accountability partners so we can close some deals!!!

Consistency is key to modifying their behavior.You either train your tenants to pay on time or they will train you to be lenient -- I choose the former. 

The dogs in question were show dogs and highly trained, and they had the paperwork and years of positive references to help them.

Do franchises have better resources (trainings, broader MLS access, experienced colleagues,etc) to translate into more potential commission for me? 

I personally scrubbed each lead on my list because I didn't want to waste any money on properties I wouldn't be interested in (i.e, the property is in a bad area of town, near train tracks, etc.).  

What is the average number of CE hours your PM's go to per year for training?

I've read a few articles describing the benefit of using a 3rd party like "cozy.com" to collect rents from tenants...one benefit being my routing and account number aren't given to tenants for direct deposit which can evidently lead to issues down the road...however, the main benefit being that a tenant can stall an eviction by direct depositing a portion of the rent owed into my account, thereby, nullifying the eviction process and having to start over since I "accepted" partial payment. 

Will definitely look into the training.

That's why I wanted to jump on the crazy selling train!

It has a commercial sponsor, Brad Sumrok's Apartment Investor Mastery, and it is ultimately promoting his particular multifamily syndication coaching/training system out of Dallas.