Marcus, the event was great and I truly appreciated your market review and forecast.

BiggerPockets is an awesome online community for anyone interested in real estate investing.

I've seen a lot of bad excel templates online...

When talking to property managers, ask questions regarding any guarantees they offer owners and refer to any online reviews to get a better idea of how tenants and other owners feel about working with the company.

Review the quality of the tenant base (do they have a history of paying on time, what were the original screening criteria, do they have applications on file).

I have looked around online, but haven't had any luck yet, i have local real estate agent there, but they are not expertised on those distressed properties.  

Look at other rentals in the area and see not only how they are advertising or promoting online but also the inside and outside of the rental so you can create a similar environment to try to replicate the same results.

I mainly want a site that offers advertising the property, online payment options, maintenance requests & at least a basic accounting aspect.Thank you in advance!

I am reviewing the spreadsheet on bigger pockets on how to pick a market to start investing.  

Get a copy of the agreement and review every word of it.