I am doing it manually right now and sending photos but wanted to reach out and see if anybody had a system in place that is less time consuming.

It caps them at 5% PLUS the applicable Consumer Price Index. 

I’m sure that was rewarding but as you said can be time consuming.

I am still in a position where I need to generate and save up some capital for investing but looking for an opportunity that does not consume 40-50 hours of my week and will allow me to increase my knowledge in real estate investing overall while helping someone else’s business develop further.

They need to increase the cost to consumers.3.

@Sean Zhang if the other options above are a stretch or too time consuming, considering investing your cash as a passive investor in one or more other deals that are ready to roll. 

You buy the shares (equity) and then get the dividends (rental income) and have the potential for appreciation just as a stock that could go up or down (similarly not realized until sale) but unlike dividends that are immediately taxable, you get to wash out all taxes in this case and then some using depreciation and also get the ROI enhancement due to leverage from the principal reduction component when compared to buying shares of stock outright (as opposed to on margin). 

This requirement is about protecting the consumer.

I am reading The Book on Managing Rental Properties, and I have come across the part where it talks about getting references from previous landlords. The book leads you to a form that BP calls the Previous Landlord Re...

Other than that, consume all the information that is out there and on this site these days (forums, youtube, podcasts) and then hustle, hustle, hustle.