Its great that properties are increasing in value!

The VA loan is a great tool and used properly can help out tremendously.  

I currently have one of my rental properties set up as a fixed price rent with utilities included (I know, crazy, but it's still cash flowing $1,000+ at least every month) and I was curious to know (a) what is the ratio of people who include vs exclude utilities and (b) what are some good tools, apps, etc that people use to track monthly cash flow?

Since then, the neighborhood where it's located in Richmond VA has really increased in value significantly.

Since then, the neighborhood where it's located in Richmond VA has really increased in value significantly.

Buy ones in areas that don't increase in value! 

I don't know if it has this tool, but I just got a Hubspot account.

A tool I have communicated to the cleaners I ultimately did not hire was to ask them if they would be interested in working on an "emergency" basis just in case my new hires are not reliable... they like this opportunity and will likely make it a point to deliver as a chance to win business.

The whole 6-12 month seasoning period concept is a reaction to the last real estate crisis where a lot of people were flipping homes and getting large jumps in valuations in short periods of time without much evidence of the value behind it.

What we don't have is some type of spreadsheet/tool that helps us forecast the revenue from our portfolio out multiple years and what impact adding/subtracting to the portfolio will have?