For more adventurous ones - we have bought houses off of Craigslist, from foreclosure sales, from wholesalers , and even found a seller we were buying her house from had another one she was willing to sell us at the closing table!  

Some features include: list building, a CRM, marketing, task management, and much more. 

Hi Jane, there are several transaction management software like ListedKit that help organize tasks across multiple transactions.

(I'm very interested in Kansas) .Am I able to fly out and see the operation and city, talk with the personel about how they handle rent, tenant placement, maintenance issues and other various property management task? 

Management tasks like enforcing lease agreements and handling delinquent rent can be difficult, especially when the tenants know you are the owner/operator.

Learning to be a PM is not a hard task. 

What is everyone using to track their daily routines, or tasks, etc.

Turn the activity into a forensic adventure.  

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.

Do one task at a time in each app so you can compare apples to apples.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.