Things I've got down to minimal effort or fully automated: * Rent, security deposit, and fee collection* Basic accounting and tax packet creation* Listing vacancies* Lease signing* Applications, credit, and background checksThings I'm still dealing with directly ad-hoc or don't have a well defined process or solution in place for:* Requests and communication with tenants* Finding and coordinating service providers for maintenance and repair work* Scheduling showings and getting prospective tenants to make their appointments* Tenant turnover for move in and out* Keeping up with legal changes and lease template updates* Setting rent amounts* Lease enforcement - tenants are responsible for things like yardwork, routinely get letters from the city about weeds / tall grass, etc.Questions for the group:* What am I missing if I were to make out a checklist of an "automated property"?

You can have Home Owners and Flood Insurance and the Big Bad Wolf will blow your house down and then, you need to pay a lawyer to try to collect damages from Insurance who may never pay you. 

My strategy would be to protect the money optimally from the government and from other potential filters and to optimize my time to do what I enjoy doing instead of worrying about real estate ventures. 

Now you can educate more / optimize. 

I am looking for an alternative to Avail for lease signing and monthly rent collection for my 2 rental properties, and this company seems like it might be a winner.

Abnb and VRbO are required to collected FL sales tax (they also started collecting my county taxes, too).

This could be rent collection, filling vacancies etc etcBeing a savvy Operator coupled with Seller Financing removed 99% of your barriers and allows you to repeat it over and over again.Recap:Learn to operate communities at an effective level.Learn creative financing to lower the barriers of entry and increase ROI.

If we were going to buy a property and put it “under contract”, and a better deal came along, rather than pass on one deal we might present it to a fellow investor and collect a fee from the investor in the process.  

I always recommend looking at the number of deals the sponsor has successfully exited, their average returns, and the collective years experience between all of those with an executive position.

The first week of the month is the busiest week because of the rent collections and there is a lot of communication from tenants that are going to be late.The busiest is a day like tomorrow, the 1st fell on the weekend, so, it will be extra busy