Microsoft Excel with custom underwriting models is the most common.

So I was using the bigger pockets property analysis tool for the first time today (since it’s free all weekend) to compare the results to a financial model I built in Microsoft Excel and found myself wondering why some things are calculated the way they are.

., Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Alibaba, Microsoft, Google and a handful of very well managed REITs and other stocks like STOR and maybe MPW), and "most importantly" by buying very heavily into them during mass panic sell offs, either market general sell offs like the end of 2018, the COVID crash, or stock specific sell offs that can occur for any number of reasons. 

@Ari Hadar The spreadsheets work on Microsoft Excel, so you only need that to be able to open and use them.

I’m 27 and feel like I’m just wasting away, a slave to my laptop, making sure my Microsoft Teams icon stays green...I fantasize daily about leaving me job.

You might consider getting a laptop to match so you can share apps a little easier.Specs: 8GB of memory, 256 GB of storage, i5 (8th gen processor or later) and a 14"+ screen size is a good place to start if you are going to download property software and store a lot of property photos on your system.Chromebooks don't have an operating system (meaning you don't have Microsoft Windows, so no excel, word, PowerPoint, etc).

It's just a fact, we are a PM business, in operation for many years managing more properties over more years than 99% of investors will ever have, how anyone can say they have 10 or 20 units and they can do just as good or better just blows my mind, it's common sense, just because I use a PC no I can not do it better than Microsoft.

(Can't figure out how to upload the Microsoft word version, PM and I can send it to you)

Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft all have a huge presence here as does a ton of other tech firms.

There are some exceptions, for example your IRA owns stock in Microsoft and you are a Microsoft employee is ok, but in the realm of self-directed IRAs the best rule of thumb is that there are no exceptions for you.