Check whether there’s an overabundance of similar rentals or if newer, more modern buildings are attracting tenants away from older stock.You're on the right track by doing detailed research, but don’t let longer days on market automatically steer you away from a zipcode.

For instance I had a special case where I billed the tenant an extra expense monthly on top of the automated rent collection, so I add it as an expense and it would automatically email them and notify me when it was late of course.

You set up iCal and it's automatic.  

Airdna does that automatically and provides comps as well.

I don't know how the humidifiers are configured, but you might be able to put a small pump into each reservoir (search "automatic bilge pump" on amazon) and move the water into either a larger collection tank (think 55 gallon drum) or drain.

People who sign up for his course automatically become members of the “RAND” clubs (Robert Allen Nothing Down clubs) where the emphasis is on buying real estate with “nothing” down.1979 - Wade Cook (convicted felon), Ted Thomas, Carlton Sheets, and Ed Beckley pioneer using late night infomercials to sell their books, tapes. and “complete systems” for $999 discount to $599 if “you act now”1981 - Real estate investment clubs are formed around the country following a REIA formula - many RAND clubs are merged into these REIAs1981 - Jimmy Napier, Joe Land, Ernie Kessler, and John Beck appear at REIA Clubs as featured guest speakers, selling books, tapes, etc “in the back of the room”.  1983-1995 - The guru industry is dominated by late night infomercial gurus, many trying to disguise the commercial as if they’re a guest on a talk show.  

We are beginning to see a pattern of a priority shift with a once automatic paying resident.  

Tell them what you're looking for and they'll set you up on an MLS auto search such that everything matching your criteria will be automatically emailed to you every morning.

One thing QuickBooks did well was to snap a picture of a receipt, scan it with OCR, and then allow me to book the transaction later with most of the info automatically pulled out from the receipt.

I then set up automatic transfers within Baselane to disperse the money to the correct accounts.