Does your market use real estate agents for rentals? 

Real Estate Rewind Starting overhttp://www.biggerpockets.com/files/user/brandonatbp/file/real-estate-rewind-a-biggerpockets-community-bookGood Luck Paul 

I just attended a QBO product update webinar last week and found out that they will soon roll out a new feature for "automatic late fee" (right now it's still in beta and available only to few users).

There is so much competition in the area and the well-done themed houses generally command a higher ADR. 

top two reasons:1. they can usually command a higher price through a real estate brokerage. 

There were a couple warning signs that he was a user/abuser.

I've looked at Quicken Property Manager and didn't like it - was not very user-friendly and didn't seem to offer any real advantages over basic Quicken.With only one property, I'd keep the Quicken you have now.  

Unless you're trying to use real estate to replace your income, then buying a nicer property in a nicer area will do much more for long term wealth building.

not really sure how one can flip 100 props to end users per year unless you are DR Horton or Lannar,  I have done about 100 in a year, (about 500 overall ) but to investors with smaller spreads. 30k is terrible if you are all in 250- 300k ++++ Sure 30k is great if you are all in 100k. 

I back that up when I tell my local cop to stop running down drug users and start citing for littering and speeding instead.