Finally, consider professional property management to ensure smooth operations.

Ask anyone who has built a house how fun the process was, how smoothly it went, etc, etc and you will be met with cackles and smirks.  

When I was looking for my first loan for my first rental property I went right to them and I had my business account with them from my other business and a few personal accounts and it was a smooth process.

I'd hope everything is smooth sailing, but just hearing everything is good to go won't really cut it here, so you'd need details I suppose, :)

The number of doors greatly smooths out any fluctuations / issues that may come up.  4% vacancy is great, but you can't realize 4% with one door.  

I came from Keller Williams but I was hardly ever at the office. eXp is virtual and allows for things to be done quicker - questions are answered immediately and closings are super smooth.

In what order should you work to make the job go more smoothly?

When the drywall guy came that stuff had been removed and the place was cleaned up.I thought things were smoothed out but then a few weeks later the T (who is on a month to month lease) gave written notice to move out on Aug 31.

Things went smoothly at the beginning and then went down hill.

Because the best way to get a finish that reliably smooth to go over the existing finish in any sort of reasonable time with water-based paint would probably be airbrushing.