Do not trust Zillow, rentometer or any other automated system. 

Like Trello, Podio can give you a simple kanban-style view of your leads and can do virtually anything else you want as an automated CRM and lead management system.

Forget outliers unless you actually know and can implement something others can't or won't10/Assign a barrier to entry score, so you can assess that you business is going to be sustainable11/Make sure it is an actual business where you have daily customers/deal flow and not a one per month client thing12/Don't jump on it unless you see yourself still doing it for the next 30 years13/Be willing to do controlled experiments and get feedback from believable people everytime you come up with an hypothesis so you can correct your interpretation of reality.

We recently acquired a triplex that has one water meter as previous owner was paying that bill. Water bill runs from middle of the month to middle of next month. In billing back tenants based on number of occupants, h...

Who in the BP community has implemented this strategy?

That reminds me...I had planned to figure out the details and implement it.  

They have implemented new fees and taxes, and they will yank your permit without notice that you are delinquent, or notice that there is a new fee.

Point being, it has been around long enough in the market that tenants are not necessarily scared of it and it is the easiest thing to implement for your unit. 

Though my staff probably still thinks I'm nuts, in 2017 I've implemented a lot of the great advice he gives in regards to hiring and organizational structure and it has paid dividends.  

Do you implement a marketing strategy to collect private money to match with deals?