If the software is not simplifying your life or making you more accurate, you shouldn't use it.Software does have extremely helpful features like online payments, marketing syndication (click a button and your property is advertised on multiple sites), electronic document review/signing, maintenance tracking, and owner reports.

Just an FYI, there are a few older investors who are selling a lot of their properties to simplify their portfolios.  

Likely could have done this for 5k if we simplified, but our current version is much safer.The furnishing itself was just over $13,000.

Most BP analysis are simplified and can ignore that step, because (as above) you can compare apples to apples in "A" and "B" since both have the same capital invested. 

With that being said, consider a brief, over-simplified case study.

She has considered selling it to avoid the needed updates and simplify her financial situation now that she is in her late 80s.  

The title company will let you know and you can pick up your check.Hope that simplifies things

A good one will sit down with you, discuss your goals and whats most important to you (higher leverage but higher rate VS Lower Leverage, better rate VS Balanced Mortgage, etc to over-simplify it).

That will simplify tax time as well.

Here are the simplified proposed terms for me ("Money") and my partner ("Manager").