I grew up learning maintenance on properties my parents and grandparents had in Akron, then started buying my own after college.  35 years later, been full time for the last five years or so.  

Most if not all of my income appears on my Schedule E as rental income from a college rental portfolio that I self manage.

On top of this the seller is prepaying all my expenses through May to help me out so I can stack up some cash while I graduate college.

I'm Koby Stull from Dallas Texas, passionate about real estate investing since college so about 5 years now.

@Shawn Tuma definitely depends on the number of units to a certain degree but PM software is great for a number of reasons, some of which you stated and others you didn't.1.

I will soon graduate college with a degree in finance and accounting, I hold a PMP certification along with a few others and plan to work on my real estate license and maybe in the next couple years obtain a residential contactor license.

I just graduated college and I got my degree in Finance with a focus in real estate.

In order for Waco to realize its potential, they need more corporations that will provide an influx of jobs for college graduates and higher earners.

We see so many different entity structures for rental portfolios in our REI Bookkeeping Firm.Ensure it's simple enough for you to easily abide by the structure in your day-to-day operations (which your question is getting at).We've had bookkeeping clients with complicated structures that apparently protected them to the maximum degree but they didn't abide by the structure when conducting transactions in their business daily (lots of unintentional commingling).

Mike, I can't tell you how much I agree with you.I also work at a college, and when I do exit paperwork for graduating students, I see that thier emails are still [email protected] and they wonder why there are no jobs out there!