Rentmarketplace.com helps with the online application process.

I would go online and check other rentals in your area to see what other management companies are out there, and start contacting them.

I setup one QBO (Quickbooks Online) account to handle multiple LLCs. 

By requiring licensing that you think is so onerous, which is usually quite easy to complete and reasonably priced  maybe $1,000 and somewhere between a day and 2 weeks of online classes, we can protect a segment of people that need protection.

Theres a lot of place online to list like apartments.com, facebook marketplace, realtor.com, trulia, rent.com.

We currently have 105 units and are using a variety of excel, google docs/sheets/calendars, apartments.com (ads and rent collection), docusign and QuickBooks online (which we would like to keep). 

Go to Etsy and search for "rental property tracker," and you will find hundreds of nice spreadsheets to track 10-20 rentals, usually for under $10.Software has extremely helpful features like online payments, marketing syndication (click a button, and your property is advertised on multiple sites), electronic document review/signing, maintenance tracking, and owner reports.

I agree that looking online is only going to get you so far, but I am trying to educate myself as much as possible before taking the next step.I am early on in the process where I am looking at areas that are long distance, as I live in a HCOL area.

Sadly, it’s sat on the market too long and I’m looking to get creative with bringing the attention of many buyers looking for a good deal on a property (online auction or something else with tons of attention??)

Well, what if the program was dropped from $10,000 to $2,000 but the entire guru coarse was through videos and online learning and it dropped the overall success rate to only 50% of the people buying only 1 house gaining only $40,000 in equity on that one house and after the course they felt somewhat confident that they could duplicate the process after the year was over.