She paid rent till February using one of the rent collection platform that I have been using.

We use Autohost to automate this process via an online check-in system: https://www.autohost.ai/You can also use it to gather additional information and place a hold on their credit card, similar to a hotel.The one downside of Autohost, is that it doesn't have an automated way to collect the ID for all the adult guests (although it collects names + email from the guest).Finally, Autohost can also be used to have the guests sign your rental agreement and agree to your house rules.

I would like to use it to collect payments and track bank transactions but I am concerned about security. 

I am interested in some parts of the portfolio, but don't want the entire collection.

We currently use Avail for rent collection.

I use the Zelle app to collect upfront money from tenants and it is instantaneous with no take backs but it is not automatic so I doubt you could set it and forget it.

But we have never felt more strongly that this is the path for us to "reduce the noise" and be in better control of our collective futures.

The world’s easiest way to screen tenants, market your rental, receive applications and collect rent online."

By mid November we received a letter from landlord tenant court notifying us that the property management is taking us to court for non payment of oct rent, now mind you in pa if license and inspections deemed a property not up to code the rent cannot be collected while in violation of said codes, they were not up to code by November either, so any who we went to court showed them our evidence and explained why we were not continuing on to live there, the ruling was withdrawn without prejudice?

A tenancy-in-common (TIC) is when multiple parties collectively own a piece of property and have assigned use of different units within the property.