If you look on Etsy, people sell some great spreadsheets that are already made with graphs and add up all the numbers automatically!

Perform the same task in each app to ensure a fair comparison.Load a property with pictures and details.Market that property.See what your marketing looks like from the public's perspective.Submit a fake application to see how easy the process is.Run a credit/screening report on yourself.Enter a maintenance request, assign a vendor, and attach a fake invoice.Enter charges to the tenant's ledger.Enter recurring charges and automatic late fees.Sign documents electronically.Run owner reports.After testing a few apps, one should clearly stand out.

I work with a lot of investors who own properties in Austin and their battling the same thing you are right now so they've shifted to areas like SAN, DFW, Memphis, Little Rock, OKC and Tulsa for a variety of reasons but the top are price points are lower and rents are stronger.

Sometimes schedules can shift, and being on their radar might get you a spot sooner if another project falls through.5.Networking:Continue networking with other investors and real estate professionals in Big Bear.

Come to find out his wife's dad had a career in real estate, his friend works at a firm as a private lender (that's how he got started), the houses were 50k houses and half of them were trailers...His personal house, while large was in the middle of nowhere...You can see the focus shifted from real estate investing to social media marketing.

At the end of the lease, do I have to provide a "notice to vacate" or does the lease expire automatically since it is a fixed-term lease? 

I use Owner Rez and the Schlage Encode integrates so that the lock automatically assigns a code to each reservation and includes it in the check in instructions.

After the fact, you identified red flags and now understand why someone promoting on BP is no different than someone posting on other social media pages...it shouldn't automatically lend credibility to the company simply because they pay to promote themselves on BP.

My life has shifted tremendously since, education is key to success.

And has the market been shifting overthere?