Doing this and being good at it isn’t easy for someone with no background, but if you want to succeed you will need to learn as much as possible and most likely learn trial by error. 

Alex Craig Pros: Free for teachers & students, 50% for nonprofits, free 30 day trial, Collaboration Tool Cons: Not designed for real estateMS Project “You can not beat MS Project and how powerful it is for the price.It is COTS and I have management a portfolio of $500 million construction projects with it at once.Build your MS Project schedule with cost and export to Excel for status updates.

The most you can do is get recommendations and trial and error. 

So a tenant can pre-pay on the account and it just looks like a credit that will be applied when the next rent is due.I'm about to trial Cozy with the tenants who are currently on TenantCloud so I can see if I like it more and if they are OK with it. 

Insurance knew I would win the case- but it would cost double just to bring to trial - like they said-a case of "win the battle, lose the war".

I have heard they are being compressed into about half the time between the trial date and the middle of May. 

try mashadvisor -- has the stats and a free 7 day trial

Find a real mentor not a paid program where you are one of many.spend 10k on a deal and learn from trial and error.

Watch 10 videos about it, get a free trial and play with it.

I'm actually taking a look and might try the week free trial.