Most PMs handle collecting rent, evictions, advertising and placing tenants and maintenance and repairs. 

You can do a 1031 exchange from investment property to a secondary home as long as you meet the 2 criteria: -You can only use the home for 2 weeks out of the year for personal use-You must collect income/ rent the home for 2 weeks out of the year for investment use.  

They only collect rent and communicate with tenants, not enough to take care of a property and the tenants.

They find you a lender and facilitate underwriting and collect a % commission at Closing which is about 1% of loan amount (the last I heard).

What systems worked best for you in terms of book keeping and automated pay collection?

Collect rent via ACH transfer (using Zillow?

We collected cash flow on the property for a few years and did improvements to the property when the leases turned over so we could raise rents.

It's impressive as hell. 

My partner and I both know accountants from other businesses but neither of us have been impressed and we are looking for another option.

Although I collect rental income from our long term tenants, the lenders consider it "Border Income" and will not count it.If I buy a STR, will the income generated from that count as income when qualifying for another mortgage?