If you only have a few rentals, you can probably get by with a dumbed-down version: 2024-02-01 - 123 Straight St - LeaseThen organize your files:Properties    - 123 Straight Street         - Photos                - Marketing pictures and video                - Inspections                      - Jones Out                      - McKenzie in                      - McKenzie inspection                      - McKenzie out                      - Brown in         - Tenants                - McKenzie and Elsbury               - Jackie Brown         - Maintenance     - 456 Jones Ave         - Photos          - Tenants          - Maintenance

I tried to see if my PM company had a bad version of Appfolio, but from what I can tell the landlord reporting is basically reports pulled by the management company and uploaded. 

It’s my version of sage smudging.

Most of the GIS available to investors is through free web applications and county GIS pages, but these are incredibly lite versions of the software (ESRI) used in our industry.

I bought a property cash a few months ago, I purchased the more expensive version of title insurance at the time of closing.

ESRI offers a free version of the software (ArcGIS Explorer http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/explorer) that has the very advanced features trimmed, but will allow you to view the map on your computer and search the database more thoroughly than your town/city/county GIS website will.

It’s my own version of what David Green talks about lately with appreciation not just cash flow. 

I have several different versions depending on which hat I'm wearing. 

It's a version of GIS I have never seen.You may not find what you are looking for using the map feature but the other data may help you.Here is a link to a property I was looking at on the Orange county website. http://www.ocpafl.org/searches/ParcelSearch.aspx?

And I personally know of less than 20 sponsors who can say this.And then a sponsor who has multiple real estate cycle experience has gone through multiple versions of this.