As for property management software, options like Hostaway or Lodgify can streamline bookings and communication.

Be extremely cautious when processing your next applicant, this one seemed doomed from the start.

They told me they have a few SB-9 applications in process and expect it to take 3-4 months (ADUs they're deciding within 30 days).

It’s a real hodgepodge of applicable regs.  

or scammed them on their application fee (like we're going to make a ton of money off those).

You screen applicants because you don't know them!

So most agents are only putting about half of that $12k in their pocket, and out of that $6k they have to cover all of their operating expenses: licensing fees, MLS/ Realtor Association fees, continuing education classes to stay compliant with licensing requirements, monthly "desk" fees/ technology fees to their brokerage, health insurance for themselves and their family, errors and omissions insurance (required), marketing, car, car insurance, gas, clothes, computer/ software, cell phone, closing gifts, signs, photography, staging if they offer that, etc.

Quote from @Teekap Pate: Hello, I have my first tenant application for my investment property come in.

Hi BiggerPockets community,We are a married couple based in the California Bay Area, both working as software engineers with a combined income of close to a Million USD.

Hi BP, would like to hear feedback from all you folks in or near the Kansas City area,Currently I'm looking for a software to help me generate leads, but there's so many of them to choose from, I don't know which is best suited for my area.