Repair Estimation/Budgeting - Ability to create detailed Scopes of Work & repair costs budgetsBudget Tracking - Ability to track your actual expenses against your initial budgetScheduling - Ability to create a project plan & track project progressChecklists/To Dos - Ability to track daily to-dos and checklists of items that need to be completedCalendars - Ideally all of your Schedules & To-Dos feed into a Calendar that you can use to manage all of your projects in one location.Document Management - Place to store project documents and photosHere are some Project Management tools that you might consider: Trello/Asana/Zoho Projects/Basecamp - General project management software that includes tasks, Gantt scheduling, calendars, project forums, document storage & team collaboration tools. 

From my initial conversation with the lender he said his interest rate would be around 7%.

I initially didn't consider purchasing it, but over the course of a week or two the idea came to mind.

My initial hope was to invest in Canada to avoid complicated tax scenarios, but I know members of the BP community have had good success with cross border investing as long as it's structured correctly.I'm looking to work at least 1 more year overseas, but I'd like to start transitioning into investing over the next 12 months if possible to do so from abroad.I'm really excited to enter into this exciting industry, and hopefully work with some of the great real estate minds here on BP!

All of which needs to be started at the very beginning of the project, including initial designs.

Can't help but notice that like 99% of MLS providers' initials end in 'AR' for Association (of) Realtors® i understand ethics requirements and good for the community and such, but arent even those intrinsic to state license issuer, not commercial brand?

Opportunities here will also be closer to you initial area of interest in North Jersey, where I was born and raised btw. 

Being the in Southern CA market (and I say that with little/no experience), I am pursuing fix/flip as my initial strategy but I don't want to wait for deals to come to me.

Our initial rent was also $2300.We selected the tenant that we were most comfortable with after reviewing the background checks and applications from the realty company and have been managing the property ourselves since the lease signing.

Here are some of my initial thoughts:After you pay a manager to run the operations, what is the net profit?