It didn't pan out.

Depends on how you want to track things, but I also create a separate property for the rental (so as an example, if 12 Flagstaff is the original building; "12 Flagstaff - ABB" is the new property that I am assigning toilet paper expenses to)....might help you keep track of things a bit better.If you are thinking about the future, you can still copy and paste the auto-replies and build into the paid side of the free apps at a later date.If you really want to spend money at this stage in hopes you can scale faster, I've had good luck with Hostfully and Hostfully Guidebooks (using stripe as a payment processor) it's newer and not as pretty as the larger companies, but a great place to start and the support team has been amazing. 

Just a couple items that might help your cash flow... have you considered installing water efficient devices such as faucets, toilets, shower heads.

Quote from @James E Fraley Jr: Unless you can prove the Tenant placed something unusual in the toilet, this is a Landlord responsibility.

The old tale that tenants will call you at 2 am about their toilet, not flushing is possible--but very rare!

Had a basement unit that just had a toilet and sink so I added a shower and kitchen.

Maybe I am just getting older but the hassle of toilets, tenants and trash are just not worth it.

Then you'll need a good property manager, who has access to good maintenance people, coz you're not gonna want to fly out there to fix toilets yourself.If the numbers work out, and you can rely on your team, there shouldn't be any unmanageable difficulties.

No tenants, no trash, no toilets.

Instead I got a house that was easily condemnable- toilets with no wax rings made the house reek of a freeway off-ramp men's room.the garage floods when it rains and destroyed the stuff that I had stored in there even though the house was on the market as a rental when I looked at it the Make ready was not performed.