One thing that has really saved me hours of time is using a property management software.

And during the Audit the auditor thought my wife was buying gooddies for us personally and dissallowed anything related to the London Trip and the trip to Tel Aviv where again I have clients and had business meetings..

I find it's much more accurate than some of the software's we tried-plus most software's include labor costs. 

Do you recommend we use accounting software? 

To tackle these challenges, I leaned on my background in Software Engineering and developed a tool designed to make the bird-dogging phase a bit smoother.

Also, for one property, I often like to point out that you don't need to invest in a ton of software. 

If you are not sure what something costs you can either do the manual research or, access construction estimating software which will ball park your costs.

We have been successful in getting this overturned.we upload our measure into our takeoff software and check with digitize it and can present that to the bank, appraiser or whatever is conflicted.

Is it a reputable company and will the documentation provided from the study hold up in an audit?

As a PM, I would be worried if a new owner did not ask me at least some of the following:- Company Specifics: first question should be are they licensed (how many properties do you manage, what type/class of properties do you manage, how many property managers on the team, how many years have they been in operation)- Pricing (what is the cost to manage the property (ies), is there a leasing fee (commission structure), is there an onboarding fee, is there an early termination cost, are there ad-hoc costs for maintenance, tenant screening, or miscellaneous costs - such as to appear in court if you have an eviction)- Service offerings (do you have a maintenance team, do you come equipped with a list of contractors/vendors, do you offer the software and portal access for tenants/owners, etc.)- Financial Services (you (owner) should think about what you want the PM to handle, if it is everything from paying bills to insurance procurement to P&L statements then ask that, if you don't want the PM so heavily involved in financials and just more on the surface level of the operations of the property then that is okay too!