(Mass Govt should be giving experienced landlords (5 years operating with at least one unit at profit as a buy and hold) zero down loans to house these people (in areas they currently live in--so they can stay close to friends and family), and free money to fix up the Brockton type area homes to modern standards inside. 

Start by reading the Ultimate Real Estate Investing Guide: https://www.biggerpockets.com/guides/ultimate-real-estate-investing-guide/introduction2.

Start by reading the Ultimate Real Estate Investing Guide: https://www.biggerpockets.com/guides/ultimate-real-estate-investing-guide/introduction2.

You should learn to read the report and decipher what it's telling you.Here's a detailed guide on how to screen applicants: Application Screening Guide 

I know Property Meld has something built into their Maintenance dashboard where it asks for reviews after maintenance issues are handled and I think if they rate 4 or 5 starts they then ask for a google review and if it's 3 or below it stays internal and gets circulated around so the team can figure out what went wrong and improve on it.

The AppFolio integration works great, but everything else is hit or miss, which is incredibly stressful when you’re trying to stay on top of your property finances.I’m curious if anyone else has experienced similar sync problems or if there are any recommendations for alternative platforms that might work better.

I am a lawyer who has been a stay at home mom for the past 7 years.

single family homes in the city are a relative bargain right now, depending on school district...There are some great schools in the fishtown/olde kensington neighborhoods and our single family and apartment units all stayed filled without any real vacancy over the last few years.

Just have your contractor rent a dumpster and pay for the cost to trash it and dump it and count it against their depositTwo - holdover tenant, which is when they stay past their lease end date.

For MTRs specifically, I recommend 30-Day Stay by Zeona McIntyre and Sarah Weaver; they helped us run a lean operation.