I make the loan payments and buy fuel for a guy's riding mower. 

Hello everyone,My name is Andy Skarvada, 37 in San Diego, currently taking over my mothers real estate management business.We've got like 80 long term rentals and about 15 furnished vacation rentals.Wanted to systemize and automate the business as efficiently as possible, so far its a bunchof snail mail, checks, files and paper works old school I suppose lol.Just signed up with Buildium for the long term rentals which should help get everything more efficient, online and digital.Was wondering what software you guys might recommend for the vacation rentals.I know Home Away and Lodgix are big and popular but not sure about their prices.Are there any other ones that you folks recommend that would keep track of leads,inquiries, payments received, when payments are due, when their checking in,with house cleaning marked on an online calendar, a faster way to enter information and sendforms other than winforms and docusign and lastly a calendar that shows all propertiesand bookings, a faster online calendar system rather than manually typing it in excel as you can see attachedThank you all for taking the time to read this and any ideas, websites or companies that youmight recommend would be very much appreciated.

Hello everyone,My name is Andy Skarvada, 37 in San Diego, currently taking over my mothers real estate management business.We've got like 80 long term rentals and about 15 furnished vacation rentals.Wanted to systemize and automate the business as efficiently as possible, so far its a bunchof snail mail, checks, files and paper works old school I suppose lol.Just signed up with Buildium for the long term rentals which should help get everything more efficient, online and digital.Was wondering what software you guys might recommend for the vacation rentals.I know Home Away and Lodgix are big and popular but not sure about their prices.Are there any other ones that you folks recommend that would keep track of leads,inquiries, payments received, when payments are due, when their checking in,with house cleaning marked on an online calendar, a faster way to enter information and sendforms other than winforms and docusign and lastly a calendar that shows all propertiesand bookings, a faster online calendar system rather than manually typing it in excel as you can see attachedThank you all for taking the time to read this and any ideas, websites or companies that youmight recommend would be very much appreciated.

Makes it faster and if they have an issues like you suspect they will take it and run.

i mean not really that i know of. the way i view it is the seller will get paid one way or another. cash is just faster, but that only matters if they want a quick sale ya know. 

However, for me it makes sense on this third rental to put 50% down and realize the income to pay off the properties faster. 

That would be one option of a way for me to get in the game faster.

An easy way to get started; have someone else pay your mortgage to build equity faster,  and then if you move or ready for your next property you now have two rental ready units.  

Always go with your gut... if your gut says no its a hard definite no... work on taking the emotion out of your business it will truly help you get further in real estate faster... 

Ground-up goes much faster.