Yes;  at times is may seem as though, despite all our efforts, we may experience various negative events or emotions in our lives;  despair, anxiety, fear, apathy, mistrust, anger, or whatever.  

Examples of such work or tasks include guiding people who are blind, alerting people who are deaf, pulling a wheelchair, alerting and protecting a person who is having a seizure, reminding a person with mental illness to take prescribed medications, calming a person with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) during an anxiety attack, or performing other duties.

Long term rentals are KEY to building wealth in real estate, and if you don't have them then you have no recurring income every month.

I had to go through greenlight and our rep is very professional and has tried every angle to help us overcome our auction anxiety by reaching out to the listing agent and asking the asset managers to go direct to no avail.

Under this scenario, you would have mortgages (currently 740+ credit gets you 4.875% on a 30-yr), but you would also have 25% - 30% equity (or more if borrowing created anxiety for you) to alleviate much of the risk.  

The Break-Even Calculator enables you to determine the purchase price where the recurring costs equals the income.If the Break-Even Price is lower than the Actual Sold Price it is unlikely that properties in that city will generate a positive cash flow.

And yes there are apps that integrate to make your life easy. for eg Bill and Pay for recurring rent, email invoices, portal for tenants ACH or credit card payment.Here is what you can accomplish after you have written your instructions you should be able to pull up reports by owners, property, units, tenants, vendors, employees, hard and soft money loans, including constructions... and anything you enter and more. -- chart of accounts is just the starting point-- rent roll-- tenant - invoice, statement, payments, credits, recurring rent - advance-- security deposits -- work orders - completed, tenant's call, --lease expiration -- email's - has also a mini CRM build in--as to owners - summary and detail, reserve funds, -- Get reports for everything you enter... create pdf or export to excel .

I would have to manage them.Managing causes me a lot of stress and anxiety.

You might as well save yourself the anxiety and stress of rentals and just give up that Starbucks habit.  

Anxiety, double guessing and analysis will only delay you.