He does this as part time work and has his process mostly automated.

This is the greatest forum online for Real Estate.If you go to chapter 4 and go to the section called "Assembling your team"http://www.biggerpockets.com/real-estate-investing...It talks about Teams and Systems - Clearly define your team and the systems you and they will use to delegate and automate tasks.

this is a company that is striving to be better and I see them making updates and adding new features all the time and its taking the direction of property management to an amazing journey of simplistic automation and less overall work load!

Any agent who says their job cannot possibly be automated is fooling themselves.  

Recently, I got RETS (like IDX) access to my MLS, so I can query it with pretty much whatever I want and do some extensive searching/tracking and follow up.So I am basically working on a program that will automate enhance all the searches I do, and insure I don't miss stuff (ie: a property I like goes pending with another buyer... within 6 hrs of it coming back to active I get an email).

Look at every house from the outside and 100 from the inside and you'll understand the area.The trouble with zillow's automated estimates is the lack of data.

These are the tasks that you need to streamline, automate, systematize, delegate and/or create processes around.For example, in my business, I was spending an inordinate amount of time on every rehab figuring out material lists, selecting materials, ordering them and picking them up (probably 10 hours per project).

Interest-only loans generally have terms shorter than 30-year standard fixed-rate mortgages so the choice of debt instrument depends on the anticipated duration of the investment held.Hope this helps...

If a tenant banks with chase they can set up automatic payments through a platform called "Quick Pay" which make it easier for tenants to pay rent than not pay rent because it is all automated.

You will want to add Zapier to handle the automation between Mailchimp and Google Calendar and Globiflow to handing the automation within Podio.