It sounds like you have found your and are excelling.

He is currently a level III Maintenance Technician at a large property management company and I was an Office Mgr. for a construction company for 4 and a half years (I currently own a fine art photography prints business.) 

But driving around town you could always spot an Art Jawad house it was the most beat up place on the block... but he made millions obviously especially when his junkers became worth hundreds of thousand each... back in the 80's I was still selling large Ranch parcels up in the Wine country ..

One of his projects was in art prize.

I can tell after reading some of the blogs and listening to a podcast that bigger pockets is an excellent place to be if you want to be involved in REI.

The web site is something that I can afford to have done so I can continue doing more important tasks to find deals.Mailers, answering the phone, wife 4 kids, mow lawn, part time job, driving for dollars, podio, probate listings, Excel files, chess, video games, $$$, call leads, oil change, eat, sleep, breath, omg kid again, twice in one night, how is that even possible. lol Yea you know the drill.          

BP has excellent tools and calculators to help you decide if a property is going to cash flow or not.

There's no magic way to track expenses-- use excel.

Nothing has changed.Your choices include:Pulling files yourself and entering the data in a database or Excel filePaying someone else to do the above for youFind a data list provider An alternative to looking for probates is to market for other characteristics and deal with the probates as they come.

As everyone has mentioned this is a great place to start and an excellent source for networking.