You can 100% create simple systems with free technologies and run your unit efficiently. 

Start learning with books, podcasts, courses, networking, building a support system, and preparing for financing.

Co-hosting is just like any other business---- scalable systems. 1) Know how to build systems2) Find a mentor who will teach you3) join a mastermind that will teach you4) Learn and grow as you go... but have insurance.

I stand corrected:)They do have an office in Metro Detroit and while we're far from perfect, we seem to get a lot of their unhappy previous clients.In our opinion, they built a system for Class A rentals - where tenants have 680+ credit scores and rarely have to be evicted or trash properties.They then tried to apply their processes to Class B & C rentals and that's when their service issues increased.All this caused them to recently significantly increase their Flat Fee pricing and monthly minimum charges.

You will fail, you are supposed to fail, that's how you learn.3) Systems!

To that end, I made a Google sheets document with every hospital system in GA along with the following data:CityZip CodeRentometer 2/X   (what a 2 BR, any bath) goes for on Rentometer)RentRentometer 3/1+ Rent (what a # BR, 1.5+ bath) goes for on Rentometer)"Minutes to home"  (how far a drive it is for us)"Staffed Beds"  (measure of how big a hospital is)"Total Discharges" (a different measure of hospital size)"Patient Days"  (yet another different measure of hospital size)"Gross Patient Revenue ($000)" (you guessed it, hospital size)Map Searches & Housing Requests (this and everything below was from FF.com stats page)Furnishedfinder.com Page ViewsTotal RoomsPrivate Rooms % UnitsHotels% Whole Place > 2500 %Whole Place > 2k < 2.5k %Whole Place > 1.5k < 2k %Room > 1500 %Room > 1k < 1.5k Page view per roomThis allowed us to narrow our search to hospital systems near us (less than 2 hours) in a less competitive market (higher page views per room advertised on FF.com) with a significant % of units being rented on FF.com at higher rents (more $). 

These are the keywords that stand out to me in your question:sources, websites, best deals, systems, step by step, factors.You are focused on all of the wrong things.

I assume it is trying to force people to use it's pay system. 

Many follow the Entrepreneurial Operating System from the book Traction.One of our core values as a company is to be "enthusiastic about doing the right thing."

This doesn’t mean anything is “off”; it’s just how I prefer to approach this.To address your other questions, the property listing states that it has a new roof, plumbing, and electrical systems, which I see as a significant plus.