AND have provided the 150 hrs of material participation and not have had any other person perform longer work hours than you.

While your properties hold significant equity, adding debt from HELOCs or a DSCR loan could strain your finances if STR performance fluctuates or costs rise.

We will continue to observe the performance of this property and eventually will build a second house next to it.

Again, these are normally in the lower tier  neighborhoods that rarely perform on resale as their appraisal may suggest.

Since I work from home I think house hacking would suit me since I can live on the property and perform some of the easier maintenance tasks myself.

From what I saw for the most part the big names you typically hear in insurance typically performed well for people. 

As the legally required small print in the offering of financial products reads: "Past performance is no guarantee of future performance".

The notes I have, have performed very well, and would love to stay on that train.

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.

For example, bank accounts we control and specific investor capital accounts are all tracked in this same software.For our investor reports, each month we download spreadsheets, write a narrative for the month's performance and then export it all to a PDF.