It is not automatic nor is it required.

The "online leads" trend becomes a vast pool of scams, each one discovering a new and "better" way to find motivated sellers via SEO/Paid adds/Social Media etc, and automatically aims to make a profit from selling those so-called leads.

it is definitely a viable strategy, but many people assume they will automatically be successful solely because... you must make money buying at those attractive lower price points!

So when you need to go check on things, rent units, meet contractors, etc, you're jumping in the car for 6 hours, spending 1hr there, and I'm thinking after a full days's work. 

Actually the last time I opened it it automatically forwarded me to the new web page and until that happened I hadn't realized that was what had happened.   

I like to talk to people when I get out of the car and I think I can get a feel for things better in person.

I am about to lose my car my place to live basically my life.

Now after being told by so many "gurus" self-managing is the only way to make things work, they automatically list it for sell.

This could be laborious as a one at a time deal.Not sure if this would work but you might be able to pay someone from Fivr to write a script that would do it automatically for you and generate a list based off of the multifamily addresses that you already have.   

The house had the utilities turned off for the 6 years, and was filled with the original 1 owner's furniture, clothes, appliances, car and ecn food in the frig (without elctric on for 6 years).