Downside: paying full retail value, they’ll also have to deliver & set it up.

@Travis Salley, you can either ask that the property be delivered vacant or, once you take ownership, tell the tenant you want to put a year-long lease in place and they'll have to go through the approval process.

Put it under contract, close and deliver good funds to the lender/trustee before the auctioneer says Sold.

Zelle, Venmo, ACH or direct cash deposit into my account....I don't EVER go collect rent from tenants..... they deliver it to my bank account

Is that an assurance that the funds I deliver will go toward paying off the mortgage balance?

When using the trec contract, how many days should i give the seller to deliver the seller disclosure notice?

AirBnB is a great platform and continues to deliver great results for many hosts.

I'd do that or deliver pizza or do uber/lyft or write a credit card check before I forego a good SF deal with hard money.  

Tax optimization is not a topic that many people like to discuss, but it can deliver equal value as other landlording tasks.

It is difficult to have an efficient system at the beginning but if you have agents that you can trust and they deliver a good service, I believe it will be worth it.