Software is very user friendly, reports are easy to understand, owner and tenant portals are also user-friendly.  

If you have any tips on reaching more people and building a pipeline while staying budget-friendly, I’m all ears.Looking forward to learning from this community, sharing what I know, and getting back into the real estate game full force.

@Teahjsia Frazier - If you're targeting a BRRRR for your next deal I would consider using a combination of your money, private money (friends and family), as well as hard money for the purchase and rehab.

Find a local investor-friendly realtor in your area who can give you an overview and assist you as you start to get to work.

Your spouse, partner, friends, or family are not on board with real estate investing.

Between hearing the history here and the feeling of dread in my heart I've had enough at this point but my friend loves this kind of stuff and wants to look around some more, so I leave and go back to the car while he checks it out. 

Do you know that most people have about $1k in their bank accounts and the average american has about $5k in CC debt… You are doing well my friend and time you appreciate yourself for it!  

- Home insurance I heard is higher in FL- More landlord friendly I heardAny and all thoughts, critiques, suggestions, or whatever factors I haven't considered would be much appreciated.

You will not get them to show up to complete the work, you will not recover your funds and you will have to move heaven and earth to make this "right" 1-See if you can settle with the contractor2-File complaints with the BBB (assuming they are registered), file a complaint with the state attorney general3-SueI used to believe there was some sort of over arching justice in the world, but then I got into real estate and became friends with RE attorneys.

WA DOR says the sales tax should be collected on the contracted amount and doesn’t have any guidelines as to what that needs to be.