.), but something has to go reasonably right for a PM to have 95% occupancy or greater on a several hundred unit portfolio, in my view.

A successful investor's time may be worth hundreds of dollars per hour.

Use a consistent naming convention - ex. 2024.03.25 Home Depot3 Maintain proper records - Contracts, Settlement Statements, Agreements, Promissory Notes etc.Additionally, you can track income and expenses consistently, using software or spreadsheets.As you scale, if bookkeeping isn't fun for you, consider hiring a bookkeeper for a couple hundred bucks per month.

Not worried about small or medium spikes , just something to protect us if there are hundreds of dollars used that shouldn’t be.Looked into splitting them and it just isn’t worth it right now.Would the best way be to just list utilities included upto a certain amount based on historical usage for electric(kwh) & gas(mcf) totals for a year?

Currently, my main bottleneck is going through hundreds of leads to qualify them before I spend the time running numbers; it would make my life easier & the business a lot more efficient if I had a VA who I could train to go through/qualify the leads for me so I can focus on the valuation/reaching out to homeowners.

You will find hundreds of spreadsheets already built, usually available for less than $10.Example: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1220746871/rental-property-roi-...

I did an ABNB search compared to a hotel for a Big Island trip and initially it looked cheaper than a hotel by several hundred dollars for 4 nights. 

Prior to 2007 there were "Gurus" preaching the idea that it was all right to lose a hundred a month net because the property would be appreciating an average of 5.5% per year.  

I got so tired with our industry keeping people out when there are more than enough projects for everyone.I’ve developed hundreds of CVS and family dollar stores across the US along with the shopping centers, industrial parks, and housing.  

The accounts seem to materialize out of nowhere and with no purpose other than to express undying love for the life changing advice offered by said guru, often accompanying eerily similar language across hundreds of different gurus.