The very basics would be getting your furniture and shopping list together, keyless entry like Schlage (with backup lockbox with physical key very close as well), looking into insurance, local taxes for STRs, and moreAlot of ways to save time and make it easier to self manage with a property management software like Hospitable and data research like AirDNA.

Software is a common question on BiggerPockets.

I've had some blue collar ones all the way up to software engineers and everything in between. 

@Simandu YakubovFor my flipping business, I prefer to use fewer software programs to streamline things.

We pay them back at close.For people/teams that do something similar, I'm curious what software you use or spreadsheets you've created to: Track cash current cash flow and projected cash flow for the whole business that including fixed costs like payroll and variable costs as well. 

Because see, they've got a script & the software to tell them how to respond to tenants & owners, what the cost of a repair or appropriate vacancy rate should be, etc... see where this is going?

Use project management software to track progress and ensure all team members are aligned.

Lawn cutting/snow removal you can get quotes for, plan for some vacancy, property management software if you will use any.Hope this helps.

However, I am running into a consistent issue - currently I am using REIPro's built-in skip tracing software, but it seems a decent amount of the numbers this program pulls are disconnected or are not the right person (I.E.

Quote from @Sarah Kensinger: Rob just updated everything...here is the site he tells everyone to visit for STR cost seg.STR Cost SegThanks I just got everything all back and they were having a software glitch or something but it's all handled now thank you