There are plenty of people who would be happy to teach you for free, but unless you already have some kind of specialized skill, they're not going to go ahead and train a future competitor and pay for the honor of doing it.

I have proposed, enacted and vetted many ideas to invest in ways that take all of these things into account through my work with the big firms. some of my ideas helped them with their bond ratings and long term performance relative to their competitors. 

Listening to all the replies I can see how it could have been bad luck or bad on me for going off realtor reviewsWhen I analyzed these properties I purposely sought out seasoned properties that been on the market for at least 6 months to thin out the competitors.

Again, check what the norm is in your area because if all your competitors are paying for it, you'll need to also in order to rent the house quickly.

So the bellow post is an article about Zillow buying up to 1,000 homes by this years end in Las Vegas and Phoenix.Shouldn't they be working on making their numbers somewhat accurate instead of being a value indicator and a competitor?

In your case, the larger complexes are not competitors.  

In addition, if you decide to go with a competitor, they reserve the first right to match or beat the other companies rate.

Xero, a Quickbooks competitor, has a less expensive "GL Only" version, but it's only for accountants.Zoho Books is cheaper than Quickbooks and probably can do packages (I've used it as part of Zoho One, NOT on its own).AccountingSeed, a Salesforce native accounting package (but can be bought without Salesforce) can do multi-business roll-ups and track multiple journals, but it's dramatically more expensive than QBO.I think Netsuite would suit your needs, but also more expensive.I will say that "Many LLC Books" problem has been an issue with EVERYONE with the move to Cloud.

I see one of our competitors at the local sheriff sale every few weeks spending over 1 million dollars of Private Money... and they are almost always buying Less than 20 year old Vinyls in the Suburbs.

Or you just want to buy some SEO for your competitors lol it's great for that.