•The applicant pays the background check fee and I don't have to deal with it myself•Can set your own logic and rules around what kinds of late fees to charge and when to charge them and if a tenant is late paying those rules are automatically applied•Can set the payment rules to not accept partial payments.

They'll charge you way less than 30k. :-)But be careful on this idea that you can offset all your income with depreciation. 

Be interested in what your thoughts are to include this in a lease (needs to be maintained to some defined degree of cleanliness rather than waiting until move-out and deduct cleaning charges from their deposit).

The reality is the opposite - if it's not in writing then the PMC doesn't have to provide the service or can charge extra for it!

It may sound nice to pay a 6% management fee but the extra fees can add up to be more than the other company that charges 10% with no additional fees.

Let’s do some simple math…If you buy a $300k house, charge $1,900 in rent, and have a 35% expense ratio, you’re at a 4.94% cap.

What we found out doing our research is that in Costa Rica, large vacation rental properties that are different than other properties can create a good return because the competition is lower and also money lending can be a good return because you can charge high interest with only a 50% loan.

If there is a shortage of housing you can charge more rent.

Every system you try will have flaws, or you may salivate over a feature that appears in other software.Some familiar names are mentioned frequently: Stessa, Apartments.com, RentRedi, TenantCloud, Innago, RentManager, Avail, Rentec Direct, Doorloop, etc.I recommend conducting thorough research on each app online to understand their offerings, pricing, etc.

Coders overseas know many businesses want something for cheap cost so they slam out junk with lots of bugs and then charge them over time to fix it.So when you build software the money has to come from somewhere.