We use for all tenant and vendor communication, and the reports are easy to use.

I know advertising, marketing and communications like the back of my hand and I analyze data for a living.I don't have plans to leave my full-time job anytime soon but I'm branching out into new avenues of "passive" income.

Communication and building relationships with your GC is key.

In this day in time with instant communication there is no reason for the delay in your property manager contacting you. 

They use direct deposit for all tenant rents and over-communicate with me regularly.

., yea that was the plan but then the broker jumped in and decided that they wouldn't accept any type of communication from the HOA on this matter and that we just needed to FIX IT! 

Being able to adapt to be able to communicate with people of all different backgrounds, ages and personalities is critical. 

Is email / text communication admissible in court in lieu of  a signed contract ?

Or, you can communicate with them on an "as-needed" basis, which is what I do for my 12-units.

It would be odd/silly for this contingency to run all the way up until the closing date, but I don’t know how you guys do things there.At the least, I’d communicate with the sellers letting them know the sale of your house has fallen through and it seems highly unlikely you’d procure another buyer and close by your contract date....doing a mutual release now would be beneficial to the seller so they can get their house back on the market.