Go to Etsy and search for "rental property tracker," and you will find hundreds of nice spreadsheets to track 10-20 rentals, usually for under $10.Software has extremely helpful features like online payments, marketing syndication (click a button, and your property is advertised on multiple sites), electronic document review/signing, maintenance tracking, and owner reports.

As mentioned you also can hire a property preservation company to come winterized it as wellAt this point in time it shouldn’t need to be winterized in Chicago but it’s always good to look and think ahead.

Just a heads up - if you have strong relationships with church leadership and are getting into real estate, the YIGBY movement may be a great place for you to work in. 

Apps like TenantCloud will publish your listing on dozens of platforms with the click of a button.

If I can't find it in a 15 min search at the recorder, then I would go ahead and ask. 

I have gone ahead with painting Navajo White for all the walls, and Ultra White for the trim and plan to use this color scheme throughout all the units eventually.

We don’t have the luxury of letting visitors wait for a page to load because they will simply hit the back button after you’ve already paid Google $10-$30 for that click (and maybe even more!).

And if they only had done 0.25% rather than 0.5% then doomsayers would be complaining they went too small and that also means a bad economy ahead (and "take off the party hat" as you're saying now). 

You may need to click the images to enlarge them.Summary of the Year 1 cash flow: The details: $82k purchase price, 25% down payment, 25% reserve for maintenance, vacancy, and management.

Welcome to the community, you are already light-years ahead of most people with getting into real estate at your age.