This post isn't about that because I don't want to control wifi or need frequent charging. 

I’ve seen them used frequently in net zero homes.

Here's why: https://mirealestate.us/8-reasons-to-reconsider-being-a-landlord-if-youre-in-the-military-or-a-frequent-traveler/Hope this helps!

These notes are frequently not reported to the credit agencies and could free up some DTI bandwidth. 

Or is a straight return with frequent updates good enough to keep them in their business? 

I only have a few tax liens, this is not my primary business, vacant land in Navajo County, so I don't foreclose frequently and don't need an ongoing monthly service, a one time per year monthly access check for multiple property owners (about a dozen)  would work for me. 

But what I have found is quite frequently doing something on principle or assuming you are teaching someone a lesson is frequently both a Bad business decision and not going to teach this tenant any lessons at all.

Frequently enough to stay on their radar, but infrequently enough so not to annoy them.

I'm able to notice this more frequently because of being home more often these days.Gardner - I'm not sure if you have changed gardeners or changed what they should be doing on my side of the property, but they have not come inside the gate in ages.

If you want to know how much you paid Joe's Plumber's service to work on just 3 of the 8 properties in april and may of 2020, you can run that report in minutes. try doing that with excel (and im an excel nerd at heart). profit and loss statements, balance sheets, expense tracking by vendor, income from a particular tenant - these are all reports i easily run (and are automatically updated) on a frequent basis. as far as receipts, i have been using espensify to track receipts, and input everything into quickbooks (i have the desktop version). however, after consulting with other BP members, i am swapping to QB online this year, and i believe it has its own expense tracking app that seamlessly integrates. i use quickbooks payments to collect rent. it gives you the option to accept either EBT or credit cards from tenants, and you can turn one or the other off (i dont allow credit card payments). for EBT, its about $0.50 per transaction. for rent once a month, this fee is worth the convenience. there are other systems such as cozi that do this as well, i just chose QB. i also flip houses, and i use quickbooks for that as well. however, i do have a few spreadsheets i use for major rehabs as well, mainly to assist with project management. you could probably accomplish that in quickbooks as well, im just not that advanced.