They should be working with high end clients and charging $1,000+ along with a monthly tax planning, bookkeeping and payroll fee.I know a guy who has 60 units and pays his CPA $25,000/year for tax planning, bookkeeping and tax preparation.

Now, I want to be proactive about the bookkeeping so that I don't have a nightmare at tax time.

I also handled all the bookkeeping/bill pays so the partner had a 100% hands-off turnkey investment experience.Wholesaling is a great starter strategy as many have suggested to you, but you can buy and hold by using partners or private financing to do deals.

Payroll, bookkeeping, etc can mostly be done remotely.Here is a great list of questions to ask a potential accountant:http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/51/topics/70447-questions-to-ask-a-cpaAlso check out the www.NAEA.org page in your search.

She has done all our bookkeeping on somewhere over 1000 homes and who knows how many apts.

Hi Sarah - If you'll shoot me an email at jhull at hullfinancialplanning dot com, I'll connect you with the person who does our taxes and bookkeeping.

QuickBooks: $300 (I will do bookkeeping myself in 1st year)4. 

Many of businesses use QuickBooks as a bookkeeping software.Think big now!

My bookkeeper is a generalist. 

My next goal is to transfer from excel (which has done well for me) over to a bookkeeping software.