Yardi, Realpage, and Entrata are for more enterprise customers (most with 4k-8k units)

Our firm has never participated in this type of forum in the past and we look forward to being a useful addition to the whole.Our firm is a family owned enterprise and I bring quite a bit of financial background to the table.

I am a carpenter by trade and love what i do, and this is my story of how i have become so interested  in learning real estate investing...I am originally from New Jersey and was employed by a very big real estate company called Sackman Enterprises  based in New York. 

He lives out of state and he has another guy managing his enterprise.

If everyone was a saver, or an investor, or an entrepreneur, my own enterprise would be within serious competition at best and over saturation at worst.

Don't value this property as a residence but as a commercial enterprise.

"But boy oh boy, we finally found a way to connect the key minimum standards of our housing code to the heart of that property owner’s business enterprise.""

The "cost" of vacancy is an operating expense and should be borne by the enterprise as a whole, from reserved funds for that purpose. 

But as the other posters indicate it seems to be relatively rare that a landlord would get paid anything in these circumstances.The issue of prison interfering with his rental chances is an interesting one but I think easily handled by an enterprising tenant: they could just say that they were living with friends or family, hence the gap in their rental history.

Your savings is $8,900, and you can probably find a good reliable vehicle for $5-6k that you would trust driving that much, maybe cheaper if you are enterprising or know how to fix cars.