I am not anti-Texas, but a brand-new investor shouldn't be investing into a widespread down market unless they know which towns will rebound first.

Happy to make an intro to the CS Outsource answering service team that does our late-night support.They help with 24/7 emergency support, overnight coverage, troubleshooting issues, dispatching approved vendors & local staff, tracking and managing maintenance work orders, and other back-office tasks.

You paid someone to do their job and they weren't up to the task and won't take responsibility.

Perform the same task in each app to ensure a fair comparison.Load a property with pictures and details.Market that property.See what your marketing looks like from the public's perspective.Submit a fake application to see how easy the process is.Run a credit/screening report on yourself.Enter a maintenance request, assign a vendor, and attach a fake invoice.Enter charges to the tenant's ledger.Enter recurring charges and automatic late fees.Sign documents electronically.Run owner reports.After testing a few apps, one should clearly stand out.

You can also take a podcast and take out top 5 things from that episode and use it for marketing.We last year moved everything over to microsoft which has copilot, so all our meetings are in teams which it transcribes the calls and using copilot if someone says "chris send an email to jamie by friday" it will auto create a task for me so I do not need to go in and create it.Regarding lead gen/tracking, copilot can see our CRM and who we have touched base with and who we have not to re engage or engage with them. 

Quickbooks is far more than the average investor needs for accounting, and it doesn't do the other 17 tasks a landlord wants like marketing property, tracking maintenance, landlord reports, etc.Software is a common question on BiggerPockets.

Government in Brazil pretty tough right now, so I would not expect great ROI during this reign and seems anti-capitalist and anti-foreigner. 

Kris has mostly just hired other experts to deal with the day-to-day tasks so he can focus more on the high level stuff, which may be why he will have a larger net worth than Phil.If I had to pick who I would give my money to as an investor I would pick Kris 100%.

However, finding a good roofer who is reasonable with price to do maintenance/repairs, and on manufacturer's list of authorized roofers is a tough task.

I agree with Michael.You can still self manage but you need to hire out more tasks.