At the root of it, you're looking for someone who has the ability and willingness to do a good job, which includes being a good decision maker on the smaller, more frequent issues and saving you money in the process.My best suggestion: You may want to look at your existing tenants to see if any of them have the skill set you're looking for.

[[[[[[....How often do you guys get trouble(cost you money) tenants....]]]]]Almost never, and then it is job loss or divorce that sends them over the edge.It takes a lot of hard screening to keep the trouble-makers out.

If my main focus was to absolutely make real estate my future goal in terms of retirement and investing, is there any reason I should go over my employer's matching contributions?

I know who my Maker is and I've gotten to know Him personally over the last 40 years and I've enjoyed the experience.

I have spent significant amount of time investing in my community here locally: I'm a member of Church groups, I play music for my kids school, I built an indoor sports arena in my community, started a real estate investment club, and also paid for speed of network by buying into various masterminds.So, yes, the network helps.  

They are not the rule maker.

If you make rent due on the 9th, then the tenants rent would not be late til the 19th.

windows movie maker comes with Windows and is easy to use but very limited.

I am now at a point where I NEED to make real estate investing work because I no longer want to work for someone else. 

My life is SOOO much easier now at the end of the year/preparing taxes.It's not my intent to disparage the makers of Rentredi, but just trying to save people from wasting their time on software that is not up to th task when there are plenty of others available.