It depends on how deep is your knowledge, your experience, your willingness to invest in automation technology, always having a backup or two, your location in the community around you, of your property is in pristine or run down shape, whether you use the cheapest appliances or make things complicated or not,You didn't mention whether self-managed whether you mean you are on location or remote.

To each their own—but all trades say, “good work ain’t cheap and cheap work ain’t good “ however unscrupulous contractors that take advantage of people are a major thing. if we wont acknowledge that, contractors are just looking out for themselves and their individual business model. you also can’t assert that quotes can’t be automated and also assert that there’s no variance in pricing  lolRant over ! 

Goosehead (because of their lax onboarding standards) does not get the pick of the litter when it comes to carrier appointments and they've caused significant issues with profitability at many of the carriers they do have relationships with. 

@Francesca Zanzucchi Most of the delay is caused by the banking-controlled ACH system. 48 hours is the common "promised" turn time, but our reality is 3-5 business days.You should look into the 10 day delays, as most payment software is automated.

Cats found a way to get under rental property and made it their litter box.

The notes and basic CRM functionality were lacking compared to the power of the marketing automations it has. 

I how to then transact on multiple deals per month and scale the business to the point of automation. 

With Apartments.com I can automate rent payments, have the security deposit paid, and have tenants upload their proof of renter’s insurance.Challenges of living with other roommates and renting by the room When living with roommates there are always challenges.

REIreply is a good software for campaigns and automated follow ups, from RVM to email to direct marketing.

Eventually, we came to the realization that in order to be able to afford to pay for all of the tech, automation, remote workers, etc… we had to start being profitable so we can continue offering above par value with property management.