Comparing benefits of owning real estate personally with owning RE inside of an IRA/401k is like comparing apples and oranges.Hope this helps! 

You aren't really competing because it's comparing apples to oranges. 

The "we buy houses" signs and car magnets.

Idk if tech is in a bubble or at least nothing close to previous bubble values...lets say on average 2/3s less bubbled values based on earnings for the apples, facebooks, googles, microsofts types.

You're unlikely to get an apples-to-apples comparison if you get responses from people whose CPAs are in New York City or Los Angeles vs somebody in a smaller market.  

In quickbooks we use classes to track each property's costAs far as xero vs qb online vs qb desktop i have found desktop to be the most powerful and efficient from the user side, if you will only be viewing reports and "checking" her then i would use something that you have real time access to which would probably be xero or qb online that allows you to view or work on an apple device and she can have a microsoft devicePlus the fact that are you really going to restore a backup file every month and go through things

I call the landlord before the current one, because their current landlord might polish the apple if they want them out of there!

@Brent Coombs we are talking about apples and trying to compare it to Oranges.  

we use an apple tv on each screen and just keep our accounts logged in. works great. some people use their own log ins when they want. most TVs are smart TVs now, so you could just have one of those with Netflix logged in. it's $9 a month, so cheap!

If you look on Zillow or any other site, I see far too many properties with iPhone pictures (sorry Apple, I know that you've invested a lot into your camera quality).