I work in corrections and sometimes, though rarely run into some people who aren't my #1 fans.

If the property you are looking at was incorrectly assessed, an appeal may prove worthwhile (particularly if you can word the contract to include a successful appeal contingency).I have not personally gone through an appeal, but have been told it is fairly straightforward.Start here: http://www.phila.gov/OPA/Assessments/Pages/Appeals.aspx

I am not sure about you guys but when you moved people in manually, we sometimes had an issue where entered the information incorrectly under the property (as we were getting used to the PM software) and once entered you can't delete.  

@Matthew SuttonYour statement is incorrect.  

Account Closed I think you are looking at this incorrectly.

I just want to know what I am doing incorrectly and what creative financing I should look into. 

@Demjan Van Der Kach,  i'll answer your question about crowdfunding (specifically the criticism that your friend or associate made in quotes).He is incorrect in assuming that all of them are as he described.

I think I came off incorrectly as wanting to take a "Shotgun" approach, which I do not want to do.  

Eliminate the two obvious incorrect answers and read the last two very carefully.

It's sufficient for me - so far - as I "pimped" my Excel to the point where I can easily aggregate data and have things available as an overview with just one or two mouse clicks.It's a bit more involved when using several excel files for each property (which is what I do for certain reasons) when you want to get an overall-overall view of expenses, income or generally cash flow, as you have to pull the data in from different files which sometimes creates problems with incorrect links etc.I have, very recently, started to look into Airtable.