Customer service is increasingly becoming a email based/ chat based enterprise that saves companies money since they don't have to open a call center.

So is Dad putting in any money or just a contractor bidding a job, is he looking at property and telling you to buy or not,(keeping you from disaster) repair/rehab estimates ect are you using his subs that he has built a working relationship and trust over the years withwill you make him wait to get paid when the deal closescould he be working else where getting paid like normalfirst try to put yourself in his shoes, last thing you want to do is have a family mess over businessWith any partner I always have multiple discussions,  a meeting of the minds, then a waiting period (gut check) then PUT IT IN WRITING and the way I explain it to folks is that it makes it easier for everyone to rememberfamily dynamic can kill a deal or make a fantastic fun enterprise

I work for a property management company and we currently use the older version of Yardi (Enterprise) as our management software.

Howard HerringtonInvestor/OwnerH&L Realty Enterprises, LLC.

Here are some helpful tips before you register with D&B and pony up all that cash.Avoid using terms like (enterprises, properties, holdings, investments) in your entities name.

first talk to a good real estate broker that specialize's in land in that area.. that will give you a baseline value. and remember in CA there are millions of parcels like this throughout the state legally created lots .. that are either no buildable and or not economically buildable.commercial enterprise on 3 acres is not feasible in any fashion.

The hardest part about flipping remotely will be deal sourcing, although that's also pretty much the hardest part of the whole enterprise anyway.

@Benjamin Kanevsky If you have another source of income, it will be easier to slowly build a PM company from scratch.If you are looking to quit your day job to do PM and need sufficient income to pay the bills, it is probably easier to buy an existing company.I would definitely have some kind of corporate form for the business, and I would also recommend having an attractive website as a starting point.As you grow the company, you may consider an enterprise backend solution like Propertyware.

What I would create is such an enterprise with pooled investors -- I might just do that. 

Lori is the VP of the Enterprise branch.