To simplify the situation, I would propose a lease that pays 20% of collected revenue annually.

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.

If we overly simplify it for this illustration, you're paying 7 Years X 0.5% = 3.5% less over that time (its actually more, but this is easier to illustrate).

Let me know if you need help comprehending this @John Swensen, and I would happily simplify this down for you in order to relay some constructive feedback on the matter.

NOT because it hasn't worked well, but to simplify in order to concentrate on a different small business startup.

Let's have a simplified example. 

I am someone who does not like to mix business with family and it seems like the Uncle wants to simplify life.

Avail.co also advertises your property on Zillow and others, which I find greatly simplified the whole process from finding a tenant to making sure they auto-pay and have an online copy of the lease. 

Simplify your budget?

That's not even considering the lower capital needed to start.i understand that these are overly simplified numbers, but the trends are useful to talk about.