@Lucas Laufenberg Automated clearing house (ACH Payments)... you can set this up with your financial institution... like how tenants pay their utilities through their online banking... when they add a payee instead of utilities or a cell phone bill they will search for your corporation and deposit money directly into your account monthly... 

As you scale up, leverage software to help you automate and grow. 

Zelle can work too since it's fast and free, but you'll need to police the late fees yourself if you go the Zelle/ACH/checks route.For tenant credit checks, there are a ton of options with very similar offerings at similar price points: MyRental, Zillow, SmartMove, and the aforementioned rent collection platforms, to name just a few.For automated bookkeeping and accounting, we have a solid platform at Stessa, and then there's also Quickbooks for more complicated entity accounting and Google Sheets if you don't mind the manual work required to keep it updated.Either way, there's no better way to learn the business than to self-manage, at least for a while in the beginning. 

We are trying to find a keyless entry door lock that you can automate to change the passcode whenever a guest checks out and also automatically send the new code to the next guest a few days prior to their check in.

I can automate charges and the tenant can automate payments.

I think you may need to automate responses based on trial and error.  

They can teach you how to evaluate a market, how to improve and automate a property, systems to reduce workload, pricing, and more.

There are a couple cheap ways to automate marketing to motivated sellers and plenty of free ways if you have the time to put towards it. 

I was hoping to automate the first leg work. 

This also helps me to know when I need to do more automation, or human resource, because if I am struggling to clear an AA category on a consistent basis, something needs to adjust.