The cost of forming the llc bookkeeping accounting insurance etc in my opinion aren’t worth the extra liability coverage.  

I spent some time looking into this, then went over it with my bookkeeper and my CPA.

Unfortunately, the Accountants/Bookkeepers are mere humans, and very occasionally a mistake is made when they are handling perhaps many hundreds of payments and invoices monthly across multiple Client accounts.

Hi, Does anyone have a sample excel sheet with book keeping or accounting for someone that is starting up with rental properties.

(Basic book keeping, driving for dollars, lead follow up, contractor scheduling, etc)Maybe you receive some sort of financial benefit, but even if they don't pay you---you'll be getting paid in "knowledge/experience".

At how many doors/properties does it usually make sense to hire bookkeepers?

If your weekends get booked up quickly but weekdays are slow to book, keep prices the same during the week and raise them on the weekends. 

I've issued separate checks for labor and materials, for my bookkeeping convenience, though you can separate the expense items on the check remittance advice.Just to say if you're gung-ho on doing the 1099, just do it, you don't need time logs justifying it.

And those will require a bookkeeping program such as QuickBooks.

But your post asks more so for a bookkeeping / accounting software.