Once repairs are complete, the property is stabilized, and the income stream is started, then I take my last "draw", which replaces most or all of the money that I have tied into the deal.I do buy/fix/hold with an a very rare flip in the mix.

Just make it clear that "cleaning" doesn't include spills or other tenant made messes. 

I am currently dealing without one and it's just taking up too much of my time and I need a better way to stream-line and track rent collections.I was leaning towards a local company based here in NYC (ManageGo), or Rentolutions, but wanted to get some other recommendations.

Might be a nice little revenue stream if you decide to keep it and rent it. 

@Galen BrickerWhich is why many people in the RE business have numerous streams of income and/or move up to larger units.

Depends how hands on you want to be, flipping is a full time gig until you really stream line the process.

@Nicholas HamblenEach situation is a little different to say what is ideal and what is not, but what I can say is that we have many clients who enjoy having a rental property in their IRA that brings in a steady stream of rental payments to their IRA. 

I would not pay off the loan, but instead keep leveraging properties to generate more streams of income.

So any help would be appreciated At the end of the day if you can do both you have an opportunity to create and income stream and also make money from flips then why not?  

REI is cheaper to leverage (you can buy stocks on margin too), REI is easier to pull an income stream out of than dividend stocks, REI comes with tax advantages of depreciation.Stocks are very liquid (REI is very illiquid).