Melanie, as much as I understand where you're at with this, I would have to disagree based on personal experience.

Is it typically a flat percentage fee based on the appraisal?

If you think about it, total engagement is $4000: if you back out an estimated $1,500 for tax based on Taxstra's quote, that leaves you with $2500/year or $208/mo for bookkeeping, which is a great deal (for reference, our absolute bare bones minimum is usually around $400/mo, and that's if you don't have a lot of transactional activity.)

Based on the prices, now seems like it's probably a pretty good time to buy in Galveston. 

I am based in the Athens, GA area, passionate about building a sustainable income through real estate ventures.

Usually they are city or region based in your state.

If they are based on usage you typically bill them back.

If you have any further questions or need additional details, please feel free to reach out.Thank you for your time.Dana@Dana Lee Fuller I completely understand and as a former Director of Lending for a CDFI in the Midwest that financed the gut rehabs of mostly abandoned 2-4 unit MF properties, I've worked with similar developers that are targeting more of a "social impact" investor base. 

Based on what I am seeing on the Department of State website, in order to do this I'll need to be a licensed broker.

The goal is to keep everything text-based so tenants don’t need to change how they communicate or log into anything.Thanks for highlighting Realpage...I'm going to look more into this, but at first glance, it looks they still require landlords to send/receive texts inside the PMS platform rather than using their standard phone texting capabilities.