Balancing your account and doing taxes should be a breeze if you keep it organized up front.

Attend networking events organized by local brokerages and real estate businesses, as well as real estate conferences and workshops.

It doesn't need to really do anything for me other than help me be a little more organized.

How is anyone supposed to answer that objectively?

Welcome @Kiara SpenceThere's alot of great points mentioned.You'll surely want to understand your budget, narrow your focus/objective, work with a lender/broker that understands your goals and put the right people in your corner to help identify deals.Are you going to reside in your primary and buy the rental?

The organizer, Bodgan, is a realtor who has flipped properties himself.

If you're mailer/prospecting based, honestly any CRM will do, something basic like Zoho can work to keep your follow-up organized.

We have to manually log the issue/damage, then enter each bill once we've done the work, then we have to track whether the tenants reimbursed us or not, then we have to pull together the water bills from another expense tracking sheet, and then re-organize everything per property or per tenant to be able to generate a summary report (which we are required to provide to tenants).

Is your objective cash flow or appreciation?

How do you go about organizing all the information you’ve learned throughout your REI journey?