Thank you, the guidance is confusing in that it states you can still treat real estate as a trade or business if it does not meet the 4 bullet points for safe harbor.In my HR Block tax software there are two QBI options for rentals:  1) Treat rental under safe harbor rules or 2) This rental is eligible for QBI without safe harbor. 

The best software I’ve found for managing tenants are Apartments.com (formerly COZY) or Rentredi.

I always audit my receipts.

The IRS is very stringent on education and research hours, and have shown in several tax court cases that people who just "manage the manager" will not pass the audit.

Hey @Austin D Glover, we haven't come across any PM software that integrates well with QuickBooks. 

A great option for a channel manager - I would highly recommend the software. 

In the case of an audit, not only do you have to prove that you did at least 100 hours but you also need proof from your vendors that they did not do more than you. 

Should I invest in software for finding deals from the jump or bootstrap it?

There are several software out there or you can just use quick books or something like that..

@Sabrina Speights I recently launched a free software platform called Passive, which does exactly what you're looking for.