An extra $7200 per year in income is easily worth the few extra hours of work for finding multiple tenants.

They used to have a killer coupon that I would use but now I just buy so much from them that I can get discounts rather easily. 

Because later, you can easily use it as your mailing list!

A narrated video easily solves this problem!

This way, you begin learning about the subtitles of the area that you might not be exposed to as an out of state investor and wouldn't find easily find from Googling.

Back to the original thought -- As I said, I found this position, and with my 15+ years of sales & sales management under my belt, the transition from product to service sale came easily to me.

To demonstrate my technical competence, for my personal house I built a steam shower, installed radiant barriers with rock wool, and a wood stove insert with bathroom radiant heated floors and re-designed radiant floor heat zones, cutting winter energy consumption to 1/8, installed a whole house fan cutting summer energy to 1/2, extensive localized landscaping leading to a reduction to 1/8 the yard work, plus random quality of life improvements like wifi switches, heated floors and toilet seats, skylight install, exposed structural beams, and master bedroom laundry including electrical and plumbing, cathedral ceilings with skylights, a steam shower with wifi controllable lighting and music, concrete countertops, etc. 

Lots of fees can be easily built into a management agreement, such as 1 month's rent for finding a tenant, setting up an online portal fee $150 for both you and the tenant, manager taking half of a non refundable pet deposit $300, $7 online rent payment fee, the list is as long as the manager is creative.Work on the relationship, and as the relationship gets better and longer, you should have a guy who has your best interests at heart, although not a requirement.

It basically breaks down to 1-3 properties tend to do it for free with excel or stessa. 3-20 properties can be done easily with quicken for $50. 20+ properties or landlords who have zero interest in the accounting side of it tend to use bookkeepers or accountants they pay to type in numbers to quickbooks. 

This allows us to really easily keep tracks of our books and keep things separate.I would find a bank that allows you to access all the accounts in one log-in.