They sell you a $400 software that is based on month to month terms includeing a free 3 day trial.

Trying doing the keyword search on BP. https://www.getrefm.com/ - has some great software and spreadsheets.

This I think mainly is a software problem that is hard for Zillow to overcome. 

Then check out Buildium, its a more full service property management software, which means it costs more, but should save you a lot of time and included rent collection online. 

Hansen, I have never heard back and he is most likely living on my 15k while looking for his next sucker.As a sidenote, I did discover a great piece of software called phone view.

And I agree that tracking expenses for a small number of units is easily done without purchasing expensive property management software.

Memphis Invest uses a software called PropertyWare to track all expenses, collect statements, and create a ledger of accounts receivable, paid, outstanding, and overall return on investment.

What software have you used?

Or softwares, like excel?

You could roll up a entity, and write off the office supplies or whatever you want to catalog it as, but the write off value on them books will likely be worth less than the cost to form the entity, documents, and tax filing cost.Once you have a working business, you can absolutely write off software, books, seminars, guru program, etc..