Unless you have plans to monetize your creation, I would suggest at least trying one or two of the many FREE property management systems available online that also do a great job at taking rental payments...

Some will support it (not Equity Trust mentioned above, however), but they serve a very back end role and do not focus on the important work of entity creation and customer education over the long term.  

I mean, neither he nor I can even solicit or offer the creation of the mortgage.

I'd look at transferring to a trust since it can't accelerate a due on sale clause like transferring to an entity can and it's much better for tax planning and long term wealth creation.

It is a little expensive especially if you are starting out, but it does make the creation of relationship between apps SOOOO much easier.

By all means pay everything off.But if you are thinking about real estate as a form of wealth creation, leverage is your best friend.  

Investing typePersonality styleAs an example, if your goals and objectives are to provide a steady income (capital preservation) than you are investing in a different type of asset/strategy as opposed to one where you want to focus on maximizing wealth (capital creation). 

@Steven Betz The creation of an LLC can be done by anyone including yourself.

Aside from providing the basics (ie. listing tool to get the property published to 10+ major sites, scheduling tool to schedule viewings, tenant screening with comprehensive applications -- pulled reports from TransUnion, which include nationwide criminal background checks + credit checks + eviction history, digital lease creation tool, rent collection tool, and maintenance tracking tool), some services also offer your tenants additional capabilities which makes it an easier sell on your end when getting them to transition over (ie. their ability to report on-time rent payments to the credit bureaus; this can create an added incentive for making sure they pay that rent on time).

. ($8,000,000 in value creation!)