Quote from @Jamaica Perry: You need to get 50-100 units to really make a living, which means you need some quick growth. 

You paid someone to do their job and they weren't up to the task and won't take responsibility.

These areas generally have steady rent growth but not huge jumps.

Open a personal account, use their banking services & if you can demonstrate a track record of executing on the real estate loans they fund for you, these relationships can really accelerate your growth.

The pros of staying in are below on the appreciation 6.24%Appreciation - 6.00%YoY Rent Growth - 0.41%Population Growth RateThis was taken from the new BP market finder tool.  

Perform the same task in each app to ensure a fair comparison.Load a property with pictures and details.Market that property.See what your marketing looks like from the public's perspective.Submit a fake application to see how easy the process is.Run a credit/screening report on yourself.Enter a maintenance request, assign a vendor, and attach a fake invoice.Enter charges to the tenant's ledger.Enter recurring charges and automatic late fees.Sign documents electronically.Run owner reports.After testing a few apps, one should clearly stand out.

You can also take a podcast and take out top 5 things from that episode and use it for marketing.We last year moved everything over to microsoft which has copilot, so all our meetings are in teams which it transcribes the calls and using copilot if someone says "chris send an email to jamie by friday" it will auto create a task for me so I do not need to go in and create it.Regarding lead gen/tracking, copilot can see our CRM and who we have touched base with and who we have not to re engage or engage with them. 

Quickbooks is far more than the average investor needs for accounting, and it doesn't do the other 17 tasks a landlord wants like marketing property, tracking maintenance, landlord reports, etc.Software is a common question on BiggerPockets.

Spending has brought about growth, but growth is not our problem right now.

I look for newer growth areas.