What are some of the best and easiest ways you have discovered to collect monthly rent payments?

This seems the easiest for everyone, but might not happen. 

Either just gift them the money, or employ them.It'll avoid awkward Thanksgivings after you own their property outright and the payments stop because they feel cheated.Keep family and business separate. 

From all we have read and listened to, house hacking is one of the easiest ways to get a high ROI.

You could save the money up, pull it from a 401, get a gift from your uncle, etc.

Easiest way to maintain ag exempt! 

Lots of classes are online now, so I would touch base with title companies to see if you could be a gift card sponsor for those classes. 

@Sam Edelson, I'm just giving you crap but it's easiest to understand your numbers if you don't include the '-' unless they are actually negative. :)

RESALE VALUE & ASSET DISPOSAL - 3-4 unit buildings are the easiest to resell if you want fast cash due to the fact that most buyers can buy them with $0 down, VA loans or 3.5%down FHA loans, and a lot of investors will scrape together the 25% down for a building under 1 million dollar.

Not the easiest thing to do during pandemic 😂 If you are buying a Condo then past due HOA fees will still be due and those can be substantial.