What’s the most painful step from vacant unit → first rent payment?

This is the loop EchoPM is built around.

Today a vacant unit usually means: post somewhere, collect applications in email, screen in another tab, send a lease from a third tool, then stand up rent collection and a portal the tenant will hate.

On EchoPM the PM publishes once. Renters search and apply for free. The same record carries through screening, signing, move-in, rent, and maintenance.

If you self-manage (or you’ve watched a PM do this): which step actually kills the week — getting applications, deciding, getting the lease signed, or collecting month one?

I want the ugly version, not the brochure version.