Try to be in control of all investments you are responsible for until you can trust somebody else to do your improvements.  

Congress controls the purse strings, not the President.

They don't do TV, Radio, Print, or even social media marketing. 

How can you control wind?

These prices are out of control

You do have to occupy within 60 days and for 1 year, unless circumstances beyond your control prohibit you from doing that.

But I also have a lot more freedom and control my own income.Good luck!! 

I would make sure you find a mentor who is at least a decade ahead of you in experience with the financial success to show for it AND is also adapting to the shifting marketing strategies with mobile devices dominating everyone's attention more than TV, radio, or mail. 

We give our tenants a few options:1) They can (snail) mail a check to our PO box2) They can direct deposit to our clearing account3) They can go to the bank branch and make a deposit into our clearing account4) They can pay via an online service (like Cozy or TenantCloud or the others mentioned)I think the post dated check idea but feel some tenants would hesitate since they would not have the control of paying on say the 3rd vs the 5th which is the grace period we provide.

We look at cash on cash and ROI but not IRR or anything that has to do with appreciation that is market driven and not forced because we don't control the market but we do control the asset.