Hello AllMy name is Steven and I'm located in Toronto, Ontario.I'm a freelance software engineer with 20 years of experience in designing and developing enterprise level applications in a variety of industries which has included, development of a loan origination platform that has funded almost a half billion dollars worth of loans.

I can monitor market rates and assessed values, but I can’t market replacement values easily…can I?

Should I just create my own accounting software?

I put a nominal value on my time at $15 an hour (this is what I make as a software tech support agent).

I'm a strong believer in proof, so here you go :-)Just took a snapshot of my monitoring software (I use usaa.com credit monitoring) It can only display a year from the current date, and I last updated it on Tuesday.

Again, you don't have to 1099 amounts until the total paid out to any single entity exceeds $599 in a tax year.So you hire that guy for that amount once a year, and you don't have to issue a 1099; hire him a second time in the same year for that amount, and you will have to issue a 1099.My guess is that you don't issue any 1099s yet, but if you had been doing so already, I'd suggest the pain of doing so can be minimized with some bookeeping software.

I have started over from scratch again and my main focus now ( aside from writing real estate software for Android) is to stay focused on real estate and not turn my back on it again.

I haven't figured a way to use BP to mark a blog article as "monitored"; I can use the browser to bookmark it, but with doing it like this notifications don't happen when there's an update.

I think the different accounts would be good for tax time but it could be a headache to log into each account or make transfers out of each account each month.I know there are some property management software applications out there but they can get pretty expensive so it's not worth it if you have less than 50 or so properties.

I was previously in school studying software engineering, and then switched to art history (much more interesting imo).