Be sure to have a written business plan and run your comps through a reliable software program before placing an offer on a property to make sure the numbers match your goal for the investment.

There are a couple tenant screening tools smartmove, keycheck and some pM software have screening.

Quickbooks is good although I would definitely prefer to have my accounting software be the same platform as our property management software.

Does anyone have an excel program or software that they recommend that includes Schedule E data to show you the potential tax savings on various real estate deals? 

The entry-level Quickbooks Online software itself is expensive $250/yr... that's not even adding up potential books/courses, CPA fees or personal tax filing software like Turbo Tax.

Also, ListReports is a great software that give some news updates and "talking points". 

Probably they don't or you can watch them get heated up on the spot and make stuff up.Most of the national acts really seemed to be selling something else that probably won't help you.....database software for $30-100/month.   

Over the years it has become easier to self-manage our vacation rentals with channel management software and smart home technology. 

I already have a software development team chosen and will start production very soon. 

I've been trying to find the solution to managing real estate with online software for quite a while now.