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No matter the track you take, note your lessons learned and apply them to the next situation and move forward.You asked what I would do in your shoes.

ya your on the right track suspect like a MLM pyramid very few get there. 

His unit door is off its track.  

You are clearly on the right track! 

You can use that number to calculate the annualized % yield and track it over time.  

I didn’t like the expense involved when I researched cost of maintaining a business account to self manage 1 rental and found that the LLC route wasn’t necessary if we maintained an umbrella policy, so I just keep track of rental income and expenses (not that hard) on the one I self manage and any extra expenses on the ones managed by property management to add to their annual summary for my accountant.

Looks like I was on the right track...And according to that last paragraph, it appears that the only gain that is NOT excluded is the gain equal to the depreciation claimed while renting the house, which, in my case was ~2 years. 

You may want a separate spreadsheet for personal tracking, but that depends on what you are trying to accomplish. 

You can start tracking some of those today on google finance.6.