The manufacturing companies that do have direct employees are almost fully automated and only have about 80 employees at each. 

As people have already mentioned, there are not any reliable automated tools for posting on craigslist.

Now, I'm not against hard work, but the idea of (at least trying) automating the acquisition process immediately captured my attention.

Setup a automated MLS listing via your Agent (Make sure you have an agent who is ideally an investor and a property manager themselves) BP members and PODcasts has plenty of info on how to and where to get money/deal/contractors and the whole thing. 

The bad ones will just set an automated search for you and rely on you to pick out the deals.

Its automated and easier on their comptroller.

. - to scale SFH's, you'll be best off automating as much as you can.

Yea I have came across a few of those...but Internet Marketing is so automated itself that I am still on the fence about the need for a VA.

Until then, it's automated submission and counter-offers.

Ok, I've been working with 2 different real estate agents over the past 2-3 years. 1 was referred to me, the other is a friend of a friend.Problem is, when trying to buy, the best that any RE agent has done for me is send me an automated listing of what is in the MLS.