Go to Etsy and search for "rental property tracker," and you will find hundreds of nice spreadsheets to track 10-20 rentals, usually for under $10.Software has extremely helpful features like online payments, marketing syndication (click a button, and your property is advertised on multiple sites), electronic document review/signing, maintenance tracking, and owner reports.

Most of the time you're talking about land that doesn't have all that much value and any appraiser that's not crooked is going to recognize the land for what it is - you can't comp 15 acres of swamp or rocky cliffs with 15 acres of flat farmland and get away with that honestly, unless the entire point is to defraud the IRS. 

These typically don't (or aren't allowed to) advertise publicly and work by referral.

Helical piers placed every 5' should fix this, but for a significant cost. 3) Due to a toilet becoming loose and failure to recognize that the toilet leaks every time it is flushed, the subfloor has "significant deterioration."

You also have to deal with a bunch of tire-kickers who just waste your time.The rest are only worth advertising on via syndication as not really enough traffic to justify resources to manually add.Of course, this is for our Metro Detroit market, each market may vary somewhat.

So, why is McDonalds still spending billions on advertising?

Just advertise as accepts section 8 vouchers?

If their credit sucks, they won't care, and you won't get that money.Share your rental advertisement and ask BP users to review it and give advice based on your market and your marketing.

I’m not sharing it to criticize the site owner, but rather to highlight how small mistakes can cost you money when advertising on Google.

it is more difficult than advertised, and you will likely be IN-vesting - putting money INTO the property - for several years, perhaps even 5-10, before you see a dollar in 'cash flow.'