The beauty of the ACH system is, I can run a local account from where I live now and have my other accounts (trading, auto pays, auto deposits etc.) funnel money into my new account and leave enough money in my previous accounts to pay what is needed through my auto pay accounts now. 

Marry man with big muscles.  

ACH is simple, bank-to-bank in a few days.I would recommend you stay away from cash/checks for safety reasons, plus cash is harder to track.  

My big thing is it invoices/receipts my tenants and allows them to pay for free with ACH and I also don't pay to receive ACH.

We were going to use quickbooks for the payments as that is what I use but for new clients hey charge a 1% fee for paying via ACH rather then a .50 fixed payment. 

You are building skills and muscles to do it again - it gets easier with experience and more systems.Keep up the good work, thanks for documenting the project and giving that to the community.  

Zillow, along with their third party vendor, whoever it is, is running an interest accruing scam. 10 days for an ACH payment to hit?

ACH payments are fantastic if you have the software integration.

This in combination with all the points and potential head aches you bring up Laura make it a clear decision.

, but by and large since I have started auto-debiting via my bank's ACH service, they always pay on time.