The biggest time waster for me is I have to drive 3 hours there and back to do simple things like showing the property to prospective tenants and showing up in court for evictions.

Using the filter function you can start deleting undesirable properties based on the numbers to get the list down to a manageable size.If there is no value in the building column then you are likely looking at vacant land.There should be a code in one column that tells you if a property is a house, mobile home lot, multifamily, store etc.I spend a lot of time narrowing down my list, then I look up what they look like online to eliminate more, then I drive by every property that I might bid on.I do this myself, I don't trust a VA for this work as I am spending a bunch of money and one mistake on a property could cost many thousands of dollars.

Remaining are cosmetic deficiencies and nothing functional.

There are higher pay tiers that offer more functionality, but the lowest level extra functionality started to be worth the $10 for me after I passed the 15 unit mark.

I would take it to small claims court.

They could have an exception for emergencies like the monoxide detectors are not installed or if they are and monoxide is leaking into the house from a cracked heat exchanger or non functional flue liner leading to an emergency safety situation and you were unavailable and didn't respond. 

If you do take on such notes, and you need to remove a buyer, you should be very careful you do not somehow find yourself in court defending the removal of a buyer for something the safe act would have checked up the loan on.

The house had great bones though - a good roof, functional windows, and well-maintenanced HVAC.

The reason I would want to sign the lease now is because I do not want to go through the system and courts that will take another two months.

Once I go over 30 units I went to Quickbooks Cloud.I used the reports function to simply print out the itemized categories and that's what I sent to the accountant for taxes.