This saves me a lot of communication time as I only need to respond to inquiries with cut and paste responses with the open house day/time and I only need to show the rental twice a week. 7.

I agree they had communication issues during a transition period that we dealt with, but things have improved from last year. 

Communication is easy people.

If you need cash immediately you shouldn't be buying long term rentals. 2) Need to be able to communicate/teach it. 

There's really not a cost-effective solution for utility monitoring for SFR, other than Nest.WhatsApp for business communications is lmited - how do you scale and hire someone to handle, while being able to track what they do?

Their communication can be described at best as mechanical.

To clarify, in every area I know of, listing agents are allowed to offer a commission, they just aren't allowed to use the MLS to communicate it.

Quote from @Katharina Bormann: I address the importance of clear communication in my book.It's not enough to tell them what is wrong.

Communication is highly important to me as well. 

That’s our primary method of communication so it works.