Real Estate Investor apps for Rhode Island Real Estate Investors

[Octavian Goncalves]

Hello again Bigger Pockets Community and Real Estate Professionals of Rhode Island, 

I'm looking for the popular effective apps to use if anyone uses apps for the following:

• Mortgage Apps 
• Property Evaluator apps ( for address, projected rents, Income, expenses, financing info, improvement costs, buy & hold,etc )
• Searching for residential and commercial properties apps
• PDF app for signing, pads, deals, contracts, etc
• Apps for landlords to keep track of tenants paying rent, etc 
• Rental property apps that estimate potential monthly, annual cash flow and the ROI (return of investment) for a property
• Rental property Portfolio apps that tracks one's properties in total
• Real Estate contract apps 
• Offer apps

I did look for a couple of apps such as; Easy Mortgage app, shake up law app, etc but wanted to hear from the RI Real estate community of what apps you use or have used currently for efficient usages as an investor of real estate? Please let know through your suggestions, thank you in advance!

[Anthony Thompson]

Octavian, at one point I'd installed a bunch of real estate apps, but like most of my apps, I found that I rarely used them and eventually forgot about them.

About 6 months ago I upgraded my phone and don't think I remembered to install any of them on the new phone, and completely forgot about them until you mentioned them.

For agents, the RI statewide MLS recently switched from Fusion to Matrix, and I think part of the reason for switching was a better app/mobile experience, so that's probably one of the few apps I could recommend.

Other than that, maybe Google Sheets or Numbers for iOS - spreadsheet apps - would be useful.

One other app I could maybe recommend would be Venmo for payments, as some tenants and contractors have asked about using that. Similarly if your bank has an app that does mobile deposits that's probably worth looking into.

There probably are apps like you're talking about and I'm just unaware of them, so it would be nice to see what others have to say.

I will say that there are some big property management solutions such as Buildium and Appfolio, that probably have apps which tie into their system and provide some of the tenant and building/portfolio tracking that you're asking about - but those systems as a whole aren't necessarily cheap, either.

Personally, I just make sure to carry around at least one envelope - so I can always do "back of the envelope" calculations when necessary :D