It's not that hard to keep track of and when it does get complicated hire a bookkeeper to help you. 

Does anyone know of a good book keeper who works with real estate investors, in the Triangle?

This works for general administrative bookkeeping, but is there a better format?

I like Stessa for book keeping and tracking all of the other information.

As James Mc Ree pointed out, follow your own bookkeeping.

Is this normal costs for monthly bookkeeping?

Talk to any officer and they'll tell you they're mired in paperwork and desk nonsense and not able to do their jobs effectively.As a fund accountant, we often have an offshore team in India do a lot of the day to day bookkeeping work while the the US based team does the review and works on things like word-smithing of the financial statements, presentation booklets, etc.

The downside to both is they don't necessarily do the bookkeeping for you, so you may need to get additional software such as Quickbooks.  

I was hoping someone would be able to help provide a spreadsheet for keeping track of your rentals and expenses and income from each property, basically book keeping.

If you can keep this up, and have clean bookkeeping (not booking major expenses that would eat up your cashflow), you should be able to keep securing lending.