Quickbooks may be a good option unless you need some of the features of a larger enterprise accounting package.

There are a lot of great marketing features built in and they are really easy (and fun) to create.

Because they have a lot of income from a non-real estate source; they want the tax deduction; they want a nice vacation spot for themselves; and they are speculating on future appreciation.

Craigslist ads are very helpful, and after lots of trial and error, perfecting CL ads becomes a solid source marketing out of state properties.

You will need a hard money source and that can be very difficult to find in your situation.

We have some great lenders that can do our first 4 deals, and we have one source, a small bank in the Midwest, that can do up to 8.

This is where the question of my topic was derived from and so far, no one has been able to present a valid source.

Find other deal sources.

Some of the sources said that Dubai seems to be stabilizing thereby compressing rental yields.

Click2mail has a great mail merge feature for post cards.