My advice on choosing the platform you hang your license with should be based on your exit strategy...and what you need to fund that exit strategy!

My guidance is always to first determine your exit strategy and then reverse engineer into the resources you need, and the platform that provides them, in order to achieve your goal. 

There are software platforms available now.

Hey Joey,Thank you for the encouragement and insights!

@Sharad BoniRecommend exploring as many sources as possible to get referrals AND cross-reference them to get as much accurate information as possible.Check out NARPM.com, BP’s Property Manager Finder (BiggerPockets: The Real Estate Investing Social Network), etc.Also, encourage you to learn from the mistakes of others - by reading posts here on BiggerPockets about owners not having their expectations met by their current Property Management Company.

Different platforms are popular in different areas. 

I'd encourage you to come join us sometime and network with other investors in your shoes. https://investorpropertyloan.com/reor/See some clips from previous meetups here!

Once we figured that out, we then found the best platform given our goals, to build our business on top of. 

There are lots of places but I only have to make the following manual inputs and the platforms will list them for me on all platforms:Must have:Zillow.

My advice if you could build a small team with payment of 50% or some sort of percentage of your spreads as payment .8 director of your marketing campaigns it will be that employees job to buy things like the Deal Automator that makes marketing easier and more consolidated and less all over the place Carry what did Deal Automator does is take all tools you need as an REI and consolidated into one platform