I own a 1,000 unit apartment complex, so decent recurring work for the contractor.

Even though my tenant is low-maintenance and the property itself rarely needs urgent attention, I can't seem to shake off the anxiety.

If you think I need to suffer financial ruin to really make sure I’ve learned my lesson, I assure you the stress, anxiety, additional costs of rework, and realization that some people (if you can call these “handymen” people) truly have no regard for their fellow human (or even the reputation attached to their own name) has seared this lesson into my mind already.

Fortunately, we have the benefit of living in the same area as this property and our intention is to manage the site ourselves (that is our partner's job after close). this means we have been able to become extremely familiar with the site while being under contract and have been able to more effectively understand how it operates, what the common recurring issues are, and what the immediate opportunities for improvement are.

.- Free recurring e-payments.- Lockout service to cover discount the cost of one tenant lockout every six months by 50%They normally get access to report repairs or maintenance, so guessing this gives them the option to do it online and the filters for HVAC.

Enter recurring charges and automatic late fees.

On top of that look into all the other recurring costs that are associated with multis in the city for your underwriting. 

Plus the tenants are paying for it in their application fee.For maintenance, if you aren't using a property management software has has the maintenance features built-in, you could just setup a recurring google calendar item for the routine things, and google tasks for one-off items.  

I manually key AppFolio Owner's Statement data into a standard Excel template that is prepopulated with recurring descriptions (unit numbers, rents, management fees, landscaping, dates, etc.) 

I have never had as many vacancies as I have right now, so I get it.So true...in all the years of renting to tenants, it's still a time of anxiety when a vacancy goes longer than a month.