You can get automated kiosks that collect rent, issue contracts, and assign spaces.

A few days later we were presented with an opportunity to purchase his automated Marketing software, Profit Grabber for $3497.

I could contract out and have a brand new large scale storage facility with an automated security gate built in Billings MT for a little over 122k.

The art to internet leads is in the follow up, and luckily most of that can be automated - there are even systems that can text and auto-reply to emails and texts for you based on the content of your lead's reply, as well as services to call every lead within x # of minutes.I personally love direct mail, enough that I just got a folder-stuffer machine that can pack up to 3k envelopes per hour.

The reason you are getting conflicting information is because they don't know without entering all information into an automated system.

They just set me up with an automated email service search, and sit back and wait for me to puke an offer.

I have to automate this process even more to sift through all the tax deed states for that!

Most of the REO listing and offer procedures are automated and don't have a space or check-box for such things as escalation clauses.

Even with lines of credit that my lenders give me, I have an automated system, through my attorney that puts the property into a land trust with him as trustee and the lender in co-beneficial interest with direct instructions to remove me should I default, or removing them once I've paid them off.  

If you can build the balance sheet and understand it then automate everything in excel, you can crunch through deals quickly and efficiently.