@Brandon Sturgill that sounds like the secret sauce dripping from the T-bone steak.

All new investors are seeking the latest shiny object that reveals the secret sauce. 

Weak sauce.

As with any new skill, finding a coach/mentor/investor-focused-agent and getting in more reps in analyzing a deal are "the secret sauce."

Hello everyone,
Just moved back to SF Bay (San Jose, CA). Trying to get my feet under me and find a local REIA.

For me all rents, fees collected, and other property-related income goes into the Income account and from there is distributed to:Operating ExpensesTax and InsuranceLoan PaymentsOwner PayThis has worked well for me since I instituted it around 3 units in.You could break the distributions into any number of categories that you'd want, but the "secret sauce" to the system is to literally move the money so that it lives in the relevant account and then spend from there.

I am hoping someone out there is willing to share their "secret sauce" in terms of what filters to use. 

What you're asking for here is some secret mind-control sauce to get a lasting change message across to your tenant, "Be the eagle!"

There’s no secret sauce.

I think that's pretty much the sauce.