QBO is definitely the best solution - you can use the class tracking system to organize by property to keep a close monitor on how each property is doing individually or analyze your portfolio as a whole.

There is no need to pay thousands on a monitored system like that. 95% of the time all you get is some fuzzy video of a guy with a hoody on that's impossible to identify anyway.

We are flipping a house in an area where crime might be a consideration of the home buyer- so we were looking into a non-monitored home alarm system.Does anyone have experiences with offering these units on rentals or flips, and do you have any tips or product recommendations?

He is also a CPA and a real numbers guy, focused on owner ROI, monitoring repair costs, budgets, spreadsheets, doing everything exactly right - very sharp.

I do project engineering which does translate to RE a bit - scopes of work, cost estimates, monitoring of contracts.

If you do, my tip is to interview them and carefully monitor how they manage your rental income, repairs, and tenant communications.Calculating Costs & Building a Team: Consider all costs associated with the property, including mortgage payments, taxes, insurance, and maintenance.

We hold the utilities in our name and pay them, but provide the tenant with copies of the bills {this enables them to monitor and regulate their usage}.Every three months we reconcile the utilities budget and give the tenant the option of retaining any surplus in the budget (say for coming colder weather) or applying it to the next month's rent.

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Unfortunately I think you are going to be forced to monitor the situation, hoping for a violation of the lease, the usual suspects being Pets, Marijuana (not even sure that will work anymore since it is legal), and "use of property as a business" when she is working from home and the lease is residential only.   

If you get problems after you have done your best to keep the water away then it's either a deeper compressible soil layer or the house was built half *** (usually this is the case).The engineer in me says "based on the pictures and information provided it appears that normal shifting and/or settlement of the foundation has occurred in the area of concern and further remediation/monitoring is required to reduce the potential of further subsidence" ect. ect...