Microsoft Visio works well.

I asked him nicely to provide a spreadsheet from his MLS access portal with targeted zip codes, absentee owner only properties, my house specs, and separated each column representing property owner mailing address, owner state, owner zip, first name, last name etc. so that it could be easily used with mail merge in Microsoft office.

Currently, I live in the RTP area but am moving to Redmond WA in October to start full time at Microsoft.

A couple people also mentioned the Microsoft Surface, but I'm not too keen on tablets (maybe it's just because I've never used one before).  

Buildium and I'm sure other similar programs will allow you to keep your books/run financial reports - IMHO more user friendly and readable than a Microsoft legacy product.  

Should I create a Microsoft excel doc and track them that way?

While many industries are struggling, some of the city’s tech companies are getting a boost as millions of Americans comply with social distancing orders throughout the country.Amazon has announced it plans to hire 100,000 new workers in the U.S. to deal with the crisis, while cloud-computing providers like Google and Microsoft, another Seattle-area giant, have experienced increased demand from workplace-collaboration software providers, streaming video service companies and online videogame makers.

Why does Microsoft have $50 billion dollars in the bank, because they forgot how to spend it – no, so they have capitol for stability and new acquisitions!

If you are starting out then I would look to get a SFR closer to downtown Atlanta in around Mechanicsville (prices are lower relatively speaking), Pittsburgh, Peoplestown or look properties closer to Bankhead where Microsoft purchased a site for its campus.

When the first personal computers were invented I wanted to go with the IBM version format that is Microsoft, today, but a friend talked me into going with a Commodore computer that ran its own version of software.