In my limited experience and research into section 8, the landlording experience is more based on your local housing authority (which implements the program for HUD) than the federal regulations.  

Kevin Phu The decision to file your own taxes could wind up costing you more than you'd save by not hiring a CPA (missing out on deductions, not implementing the right strategies, etc.).I wouldn't try to gut and rehab an entire house in 3 months by myself; I'd hire a contractor.

We own 40+ units, right now, we use google spreadsheet to track maintenance requests, unfortunately, it involves lots of manual work in the process.Request come in through email or phone call-> record it in the maintenance request spreadsheet-> dispatch to handy man->send notification to tenants->follow up the status of a request->close the requestWe want to automate the work in the above process, such as 1. automatically create issue in the system from email (Lots of our tenants are not tech-savvy, email or phone call is probably easy for them to report problems)2. when a request is dispatched, email notification to the tenant and handy man are automatically sent out3. generate report of requests, so that we can track its statusWhat's your experience and suggestions?

There is a lot of good information and with all of it to go through I have been able to take pieces that apply and implement them accordingly.

I did it by bringing rents to market value, reducing delinquency by improving tenant performance, developing and implementing a water conservation program, installing temperature limiting thermostats, developing a a/c condenser maintenance program, installing solar screens on all windows to reduce heat input into units, renegotiated service contracts to reduce cost, and on and on.....  

Daily tasks include checking Craigslist for new properties (Automated with IFTTT), setuping criteria in Zillow, Redfin, Realtor dot com to send you daily listings immediately, and calling incoming leads back. 

New school from the sense of you can implement some very cool tools to help you keep in touch with more people in a meaningful and authentic way then one could before without using these tools.

Next flip, make sure you stick to your plan, implement improvements from the previous flip, and sell fast at the end to move on to the next project3.

The good thing about using a software (like Quickbooks), you can automate certain things which will save you some work. 

I called the automated phone system for Wells Fargo and it indicated that the mortgage was now current.