Second, when you flip from long distance you automatically open yourself up to every problem in the world in regards to good management, dealing with contractors, honesty and there is nobody there to watch your back. 

When you are not hands-on and you hire a management company you automatically inherit all sorts of additional expenses that will put you out of business.

What's driving me nuts is when someone books on any platform, it still automatically blocks those dates on the other ones, so it's literally just the pricing that VRBO isn't allowing to get pushed through.  

The issue here, in my mind, is that increasing the rents from the duplex doesn't automatically increase the value in the way that an apartment building might.

So, if you are looking for someone small and cheap to do a little job for you, you are automatically selecting from the fourth-best people out there, people who were unable to work in new construction, well-established renovation, or Home Depot at a cut rate.And here's the real kicker -- once they get big enough to put a few bucks by, what's to stop many of these tradesmen in an economy like today's from getting into the game themselves and realizing they can pay themselves more in increased equity and increased rent than they can make working for others?

With automatic messaging and all the available apps I hardly spend any time doing it myself so it's hard to justify paying someone else to do it unless the #'s are that good.

"Autoscheduling" is the feature you are referring to that automatically shift dependent tasks on your timeline if a predecessor task gets delayed.

When the tenant owes you money other than the actual month's rent e.g. the late charge, you have to send a separate letter to the tenant regarding any of those charges the day after you give the tenant the Three Day Notice To Pay or Quit.So, what I did to make my life easy is; I developed a software application with MS Access 2003 where it is super simple to print the Three Day Notice To Pay Or Quit and when the software prints the notice the software automatically prints a separate letter with a date one day in advance of the notice and I send both the notice and letter at the same time.

Also, depending on how the counter is written (check with your agent on this) the contingency doesn't "automatically" come off.

I received a response from an HOA attorney at another property I rent who was nice enough to share this info for both HOA Lien and Mortgage Lien scenarios in AZ:Pursuant to the Declaration and ARS 33-1807, the association has an automatic lien for the delinquent assessments and reasonable costs of collection and attorney fees.