Remember, the notion of amassing wealth without investing is a dangerous myth perpetuated by self-proclaimed experts.

If your tenants have an enjoyable experience with you, as opposed to hating you, you will go far if you are self-managing.

I self manage 29 SFR and keep them all below market rent (except for my sec 8 properties).

There are the self service options as well as drop off and pick up options.

This email gives people yet another opportunity to self-select out of the application process based on my expectations and criteria before an actual showing in scheduled. 

But, more importantly for future investing (and sanity) stay away from "guru's" and self proclaimed mentor's who have something to sell you.

What I would tell you is that as we built our portfolio we continued working our full time corporate (cubicle) jobs until we had 20 units (self-managing them along the way).

As a PM I can justify the cost of this software, if I was self managing 1-2 units I likely would not. 

Do you self-manage?

A good attorney will even warn you if you are doing something illegal.As you can see from the list, a wannabe or "self taught" or poorly trained by videos or in a "community", does not provide the breadth of knowledge & experience to keep people out of trouble.