And they say it's very clean and nice where they live at and invest at.

That's when the DIY craze took off, folks started writing books, and it was the land of milk and honey.  

Hey Maurice, You should ideally work on cleaning up your credit to get the best possible rate, which it sounds like your doing.

But when I was an agent, learning some basic Python and VBA (Excel) really helped me save time in the process of collecting and analyzing real estate data.I've been working with technology for the last 25 years; sometimes you don't need sexy, you just need a tool that works.It's a sin that, we technologist, fall for often: searching for sexy instead of "this old thing just works" :) Agreed, though in my experience, a lot of real estate professionals are far from the most technical people, so having clean and intuitive software UI is very key... but then again the MLS exists and that to my knowledge still doesn't have a back button... lol

Regardless, CA needs to clean up its act or else tech (and film) will eventually get fed up.

But I was spending a lot of time shopping, making the juice and cleaning up.

Nickels and dimes add up , we recently cleaned out a house , I had a 20 year old guy helping me .

I currently use TenantCloud, which I think works pretty well for self-managing DIY landlords, but it's not meeting the needs of my property management anymore (I manage close to 70 units).

They don't upcharge very much, unless things actually need attention, and they offer things like annual gutter cleaning, which you can agree to each year or pass on.

Have you scheduled a cleaner to come in and do a deep clean before you start renting.