Looking at similar properties is a great way to see performance also to compare vacancies.There’s several YouTube sources on how to estimate monthly costs as well from Airbnb Automated and STR University.

It gives a deep dive on finding, setting up, costs, and automation of strs.  

A chatbot can both capture visitor contact information while providing answers to their questions.A chatbot is the 21st century approach to automating your marketing.

I don't use it's payment collection option, but instead use Quickbooks Online's invoicing and automated recurring payment feature.

I was using REIPro before I made the jump to Propstream, which I also liked but for similar prices Propstream just offered a lot more, such as their list automator tool and their landing sites.

What property management software would you recommend to automate this process, not break the bank and right for a small-scale multi-family?  

If you're using conventional financing you need to document 30% equity in your current primary that you're vacating in order to use 75% of gross rents from the tenant that will be renting your current home.You can document it by ordering an appraisal which is 450-700 dollars with rent survey attachment to the appraisal or you can sometimes do an AVM - automated valuation model which is usually free or a drive by appraisal with some banks which is usually 100-200 dollars.Some banks (portfolio non conventional) will all you to use gross rental income either discounted at 75% of face value or full 100% against your full PITIA (current residence) if you put down 20-25% on the new property.with FHA you can use gross rental income up to 85% of gross against PITIA when looknig to buy a new property assuming your current mortgage is not a FHA loan which you'd then have to adhere to 2nd primary/FHA rules/exceptions.You can see how these general questions on BP get answered so non nonchalantly however the depth of the answer really depends on your goals, your plans, and financing tools in use, and working with someone who actually understands not only the financing semantics and the investing objectives.

I suggest Ring Doorbell2.My automation for AirBnB has:1) Ring doorbell2.2) Smart Thermostat.3) Window and door sensors.4) Yale Smart lock.5) Water leak sensors and smart fire alarm.Once these things are connected by a hub, then you can do automation.

Once you get into the type of operations where phone calls use IVR, responses are canned and automated and someone making $12 per hour is the person that has the direct contact with your guests, things get trickier.

Professional tenants are good and you need to be checking the court records, etc, even after running an automated screening.