Also would like to add that when I first started out on my STR journey I learned a lot from Youtube and in particular, Airbnb Automated's channel.

That being said, as we entered the age of IoT and home smart hubs and such, you might want to really map out what the future vision of your home looks like with regards to automation. 

The main living area sliding glass door has an open/close sensor that allows me to automate turning the Mode to OFF when it is detected as open and then setting it back to AUTO when the sensor is closed.

The difference between software are the automation and the title of the fields.

4) Has anyone automated this so you don't have to change temps manually?

For now this will only distract you from what you should be doing: deals.Before I get killed here by team technology here, let me say this: I appreciate the notion of "starting professional", but in my 15 year experience working and mentoring a lot of new investors, software, websites, logos, business cards and entities etc are all "shiny objects" that serve no real purpose other than mesmerizing and distracting from the real job on hand, which is buying properties and renting them out.Software and automation have it's place, when you have grown so big, that this is becoming a bottleneck, then it is a solution to an actual problem.

What automations/software (pricelabs, hospitable, guesty, etc) are your favorites?

Thanks @Kerry Baird Yea, that was what I was trying to get at when I was looking at this automated DIY Cost Seg report (screen shot of parts below) where it was split into 5 parts.

Even if the ARV is wrong (which we verify using either a Automated Valuation Method report or an actual appraisal) and we can't sell the property, our buy and hold company is always willing and ready to buy the property at a predetermined price, which includes the flip company's 25% cash-on-cash profit. 

Depending on how often they're booked, I need to move a % of funds in and out of them to other accounts, but haven't found a way to automate these flows.