Anything with teeth can bite and I'd much rather be in the room with a fully trained Doberman than a untrained chow or lab.    

Without a full picture of your finances (and Im not asking you to post anything sensitive) its hard for me to guide you further.

I ask potential tenants to fill out my online application (all of their sensitive personal information and credit card #), and I personally wouldn't fill that out if I had just been bounced around between domains. 

Yes it's called the rate sensitivity factor.

Good place to cut your teeth I think as a beginner.

In reality this hasn’t been a very common scenario recently, but is something to put in the back of your mind that, although not likely, COULD occur.There are several elements of a shared well agreement that can be written to add a little more teeth and protect against things such as this.

Our goal is to move all the tenants out (which I forsee will be like pulling teeth), remodel and transition into a short term rental model. 

My statements are always made with no emotional intent and will often come across as harsh to those more sensitive individuals. 

Duplexes, tripexes and 4 units are a great way to start in this business That is how i cut my teeth when I began investing for income property

I'll call first rather than text, and if they don't answer, the text I send will be one that conveys that they need to interrupt their morning to call me back, this is important and time sensitive (from a customer service perspective, you can't lock someone's rate without them in the loop, even if it's "objectively" the right thing).Trying to day-trade across days is much harder, there's no "glitch in the matrix" that yields foresight like the "glitch" created by the lag between when bond movement happens, and the couple hours it takes lenders to update rate sheets (in EXTREME cases, like March 2020, they CAN just instantly shut off locking entirely until they sort their stuff out, but in the "normal" world a business doesn't like to slam it's doors shut unannounced).