Hi, @Chris Pebley,I'm a fellow LO resident renter who hasn't pulled the trigger on a home purchase yet, and also interested in REI (mostly passive investing but also advanced financing solutions).  

There's a lot of "credit repair" groups out there that aren't always the best solution - glad to hear you are doing it through Experian.I suggest you talk with a mortgage pro (perhaps your wife has contacts via her work to an underwriter) - in short you need to get to the bottom of whether you can move forward with a new loan before the credit issue is resolved.Beyond that is sounds like you have a potential property picked out.

My locksmith says he has a bucket full of Smartkey locks that owners have paid him to get into after they failed on them.So my solution is Landlordlocks.com and their iCore system.

Hi Michael, I started tax lien investing after  identifying my criteria (types of liens, tax assessor values, owned by bank vs. mortgagee vs. business)went to a couple auctions in the areas I was interested in getting involved in to figure out the pace and the players at the auctionreading 16% Solution by Joel Moskowitzreading through BP to figure out how other seasoned tax lien investors (Ned Carey is one) were approaching their business Hope this helps.

Property management is easily monitored and recordable3.

Does anyone have a software solution to integrate Quickbooks with the reports from Appfolio and provide some investment tracking? 

Does anyone have a good resource to monitor student loan default rates in real time?  

I had more complex solutions, like charging a variable rent, starting with a high first month's rent and then decreasing afterwards.

i also have personally used alpine capital solutions in Indy.

They basically install a water monitoring device for each unit and track the water usage.