It feels amazing to have the front-end automation and only having to focus on meeting with sellers.   

Mainly, the systems implemented are fascinating (VA, automated offers, etc.)

Called the dude, and he had some weird automated answering service asking if I'm interested in selling.

It also can be used to automate systems in your business

What are the best ways to automate collecting rent from tenants that is on automatic payment and sends notification to tenants that rent is due?

I automate everything, making it as easy as possible for guests to book, and even easier for me to handle the booking.

I'd like to automate everything with it and keep it hands off for the most part.

As for time, you will spend some time getting setup, but if you use a mgmt platform (e.g. iGMS, OwnerRez, others) you can automate a lot of the process.

There's a blog post of that feature on my site.What the tool is not, is an automated valuation like the Zestimate or Redfin estimate, so when used as such, your mileage will vary.

I know that was an issue for many of us and we (BP Nation) provided commentary accordingly.One project I could see doing is initiating a NC CF project with the intent of building a public domain platform to simplify (and automate) administration and promote NC CF implementations.