I give my tenants deposit slips and they deposit the rent, any expenses come out of the appropriate account and at the end of the year I print an activity report and compile income and expenses fairly easily. 

There is sites now that compile data to give a good "read" of what-for-what but I go from my own insight.

When you’ve compiled a detailed and thorough budget, ideally, you should be able to stick to it.

.#4 Compile Your Prices into a Spreadsheet or Estimating SoftwareOnce you start to get a better understanding of Labor and Material costs you will want to store this data into a spreadsheet or software that you can use to help you streamline the estimating process.The Book on Estimating Rehab Costs comes with a spreadsheet that you can use to help you populate your own database of labor pricing and material pricing.

Oftentimes, after a flood or a major destructive event, the local building department will compile a list of approved vendors.

But, here is the data that we compile anytime we go to a new market and we have researched close to 20 markets at this point.  

.#4 Compile Your Prices into a Spreadsheet or Estimating SoftwareOnce you start to get a better understanding of Labor and Material costs you will want to store this data into a spreadsheet or software that you can use to help you streamline the estimating process.The Book on Estimating Rehab Costs comes with a spreadsheet that you can use to help you populate your own database of labor pricing and material pricing.

(B)Application by mail, telephone, computer, or other similar means(i)If a consumer described in subparagraph (C) applies for employment by mail, telephone, computer, or other similar means, and if a person who has procured a consumer report on the consumer for employment purposes takes adverse action on the employment application based in whole or in part on the report, then the person must provide to the consumer to whom the report relates, in lieu of the notices required under subparagraph (A) of this section and under section 1681m(a) of this title, within 3 business days of taking such action, an oral, written or electronic notification—(I)that adverse action has been taken based in whole or in part on a consumer report received from a consumer reporting agency;(II)of the name, address and telephone number of the consumer reporting agency that furnished the consumer report (including a toll-free telephone number established by the agency if the agency compiles and maintains files on consumers on a nationwide basis);(III)that the consumer reporting agency did not make the decision to take the adverse action and is unable to provide to the consumer the specific reasons why the adverse action was taken; and(IV)that the consumer may, upon providing proper identification, request a free copy of a report and may dispute with the consumer reporting agency the accuracy or completeness of any information in a report.

I want to compile the 'Ultimate List of Questions for Newbie's Before Buying Property' (and then share it widely here!).

Is the note-buying course a combination of different articles or books the author wrote or other authors wrote and compiled into a “course” that is really a hodge-podge of different topics without a methodoloy?