Anything that helps cut costs, raise revenue, or streamlines being a landlord is knowledge I greatly appreciate no matter how small or big the idea may be =D Thank you in advance for sharing your insight, and personal experiences!

Is there a more streamlined manner to do this?  

The work isn't that extensive, so I'll be going the streamline 203K route.

I can tell you from my REO brokers that list nationwide that inventory has all but dried up.The transactions are happening more on the short sale side now and many of these properties are in better condition than a foreclosure because the property hasn't been sitting as long and the current owners are still maintaining the properties some.Since the banks are working with them and the short sale process has been streamlined owners are getting less frustrated and doing less damage to the properties.

If you can do the 203K or 203K streamlined, (35K max rehab, nothing structural) you have gotten into the property plus the rehab for no more than 3.5% which is cheap for a property that you anticipate will be a rental in the future.

I am currently looking to go through a credit union, but am looking at other options that could be more stream line versus a bank route.

I have purchased a couple of courses from them that did help me streamline my start, but I didn't jump out the window at the then $30k mastery student enrollment.

For the properties that I manage I use property manage software to streamline communication , tenant requests, etc. 

We both became real estate agents to streamline finding deals and save money.In the beginning, we did all the rehab work ourselves and learned a lot along the way, but 12 years and 3 kids later, we became stuck with little time to find deals and manage the ones we were holding. 

Six is by no means a large number of showings overall, I mention the above just to provide some suggestions on how to streamline your process in the future.