Standard Tenant Screening: Verification of Identity:This involves requesting a copy of the applicant's passport and visa (if applicable) to confirm their identity and legal status.

I can show you a website where $8.99 can get you a perfectly good drivers lisence and another site where you can by a complete identity for between $50-$400.

Our units are located in Spartanburg, SC and are all identical. 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms with a private one-car garage.

So they're identical in that regard.  

Finding your identity as a real estate professional, not a "real estate agent", "property manager", "transaction coordinator", makes a big difference!

the ROI or cash on cash return is sometimes identical (depending on the property.) 

If net income were identical based on self managing both the easy answer is LTR, with 2 caveats I can think of. 

If you had a written lease that limited number and identity of allowed occupants, you might have some rights, but you do not have that.

Having your own application ensures you get all the info you might need down the line, especially if you ever have to pursue collections or verify identity.

The only full article I could find wasAnthropic gave its AI chatbot Claude a small store to run, and the results were... interesting.https://tech.co/news/anthropic-gives-claude-ai-store-to-run"While the model, named Cladius, excelled at some tasks, there were plenty of hallucinations, and a brief identity crisis (where Claudius thought it was a human), which didn’t deemed the AI a pretty bad business owner."