In these cases, this is my preferred method.Pros- Great option for tenants without email or who are not tech-savvy- Requires no front end set up from your end as the landlord/property manager- Typically results in more on-time payments since it takes the human error out of bill paying- No fees for the tenant or landlord/property managerCons- Not all financial institutions offer this - Does not allow you to configure late payments, fees, updated rent etc.- Requires slightly more time on the bookkeeping side to ensure the deposit hit your account and sometimes it difficult to tell at first who the deposit is for- Tenant at any time can stop the direct deposit from their end

I think that this new investor should: - Save as much as humanly possible to have more and more cash to potentially put in the deal with each passing month. - Obsess over real estate - analyze dozens or hundreds of deals, read books, listen to podcasts, post in this forum, etc.

Sometimes humanizing a landlord really helps. 

Now you have permanently damaged the relationship and may have opened the door to other liability i. e. self-help evictions, harassment, retaliation, etc..You screened these folks, they passed the test, you rented to them - they are human - and we are all worried about bring covid into our homes.

Bear with this long existential post, and here it goes.I'm a 30 odd year old human who bought a few properties in the sub 3% era these past few years.

-A From my understanding of Machine Learning...Cognitively, it is lacking compared to the human mind.

I have not fallen for this but have been to a couple of "free" seminars, mostly for entertainment value and a study of human psychology.

It is human nature to have some greed.

Surrounded by deals, build up your arsenal so you not only have the knowledge to take action, but the resources both from a capital and a human power standpoint to capitalize on the situation.

I have a client house hacking a 4-unit with 3 kids under the age of 5.I mean, it can be done.The vast majority of the billions of humans who ever lived spent their lives in close quarters with their kin in what we would call shacks.