I want to devise a plan to get you back on your feet.”I feel I need to be a little more firm so I told them I need November's rent by tonight, and asked for 10 proofs of job applications. 

The simple reason is that you cannot even tell debit cards from credit cards without a special software.

It may or may not show on a credit report, depends on the servicing and you should have the loan serviced.Failure to include the debt on a future loan application is mortgage fraud, wanna go to jail?

Mortgage lenders will qualify you for a higher purchase amount for multis than they would on a single, because they will count the rent you will be making on the other units as additional qualifying income for your loan application.

What property management software or tools would you recommend for tracking rent payments, leases, and maintenance requests?

I’m struggling to understand why all of this is necessary just to use their property management software.

The guy I signed up with basically knew nothing more than me filling out the application. 

In our student houses we use a programmable thermostat, but our building monitoring system has its own sensors and can override the wall thermostat and will not allow the temperature to get below 10C (50F) ... we are presently testing a new software load that will also prevent them from cooling the house too far in the summer.

@Jorge Vazquez we stopped doing signs over 10 years ago.We had a separate phone number on our signs, so were able to track traffic & applications from them.We were getting more & BETTER leads from our online ads then the signs - so an easy choice to stop using them (also time & money savings).

In the  future - never  pay an application or engagement fee   when trying to  get a home loan or a  reseideential loan