You don't want them to just be financially qualified but you failed to investigate how they treated their past two apartments. 

IT DOES NOT WORK at improving your financial balance at all.

In the past year we've been through the ringer financially due to bad contractors, deal promises, and generally just being new to the game.

It wasn't fun living an hour and a half from work and play, but absolutely worth it.If one is starting with relatively low living expenses, cash flow can be extremely powerful towards reaching financial freedom.

keep it to 1 page is my best advice and simple. have financial returns broken out beforehand 

All 3 are low due to the low vacancy, but evictions are also low due to the difficulty in performing evictions

Financial terms.  

Also any tips for automating this as much as possible and how to protect the property financially and property management would be appreciated.I ALMOST understand the rental arbitrage strategy if building a company scaling with say 30 + units and looking for high short term cash flow.  

Working on my financial fundamentals, namely saving enough free capital to invest.

The agents are charged for this service no matter what so it's difficult for the agent to service from a time and financial perspective.