The moment I chose my first team member (a RE agent with a lot of multifamily experience) I gained both external momentum and an invaluable knowledge base.

You could also forbid future external improvements to preserve the outside beauty, just like you would not be able to hang cloths outside a balcony. lol.

I use rentigo to manage my properties and it's really easy and I think hiring someone external would be a waste of money.

I have been using desktop QB 2013 backed up to an external hard drive.  

Instead, you need to see the overlooked opportunities that are all around you and act on the vast sums of untapped income and unclaimed success just waiting to be harnessed.You probably spend too little time studying the most successful, innovative and profitable ideas people in other industries use to grow and prosper.Yet, if you start focusing on other industry’s success practices, you’ll be amazed at how easily you can adapt these ideas to your own business situation.Suddenly, you’ll see significantly better ways to produce significantly better results from the same time, manpower, effort, activity, and capital.Vision isn't easy.As a result, most people let the opportunity of a lifetime slip through their fingers & live to regret it; but in this case I could make it easy for you to Not let this one slip away so that you can take advantage of this unique opportunity with zero risk.Instead, you need to see the overlooked opportunities that are all around you and act on the vast sums of untapped income and unclaimed success just waiting to be harnessed.In a recessionary economy like this, some 30 million people could be out of work -- they lost their jobs, got put on shortened work week.Millions will be (or are, right now) aggressively looking for business opportunities they can purchase or start.Though most of them don't have a lot of cash to invest, they still need income, they need work, they need productive activity that makes them money and keeps them feeling worthwhile.I believe there’s not one business owner or startup I’ve ever met in North America (and probably the world) who couldn’t, who shouldn’t broaden their perspective and think about how to grow yourself a small or large business empire.And that can mean nothing more than multiplying the size of your current business many times through external leveraged buyout acquisition activities.Or it can mean multiplying it through a roll up.

These investors actually made one or more trips to Florida to hand-pick the real estates in the beginning.  

Have I seen banks cheat the system, and handpick their appraiser--yes! 

This should have been presented in your counter-offer along with your handpicked comps that shows support for your offer.Have you presented your short sale Net Proceeds against the proceeds in an auction and REO scenario?

(for overall bottom-line net profit and taxes)Lease/contract archival (for scanning documentation and storing in the software);Lease alerts (ie which property has a lease expiring in 30, 60 days, etc)Data backup to external sources (again, non-cloud based)Even without cloud-based software, they want to still be able to access the software remotely and securely through any internet connection.

Finally, you make sure that there are external factors that are going to keep those pocket neighborhoods nicer than the rest of the area.