However, it doesn't integrate real estate with all your other personal finances and retirement investments for long term planning (or does it?).  

Quicken used to do some of this (I think) but it didn't integrate with QB.  

Go text or social media.

Too few people in government and in the media understand this inexorable economic reality and thus try to paint "slumlords" as bad people. 

Everything points to your site and from there it points out everywhere online (Social media, blogs  etc. etc.. ) and from everywhere online pointing back to your websites and other blogs and social media.Too many investors see a website as just a box to be checked on your checklist..

Virtually all written communications to or from School District Personnel are public records available to the public and media upon request.

Let's help @Megan Dillard have her story go viral - the media will report what sells, and usually, it's not the investors and landlords' side of the story.

Even little things like ALL of their social media links (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc) on their webpage just lead right back to their webpage. 

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That way I had multiple contacts/referrals in case something fell through, especially with contractors.When it comes to your questions, I personally scoured the interwebs like this site, podcasts/youtube, and others forms of educational media to gain a foundation of understanding and there is a pleurae of book recommendations as well people can always provide.