Call you local apartment association and take someone to lunch that has site management experience and pick their brain.If I was showing up tomorrow and taking over a property, here is a list of things I would want to know:- Current Rent Roll with all lease charges- Current Delinquency on each account- Status of any evictions and the dates that go along with the proceedings- Monthly schedule of lease expirations (which units have expiring leases each month?)

What is the recommendation for the letter to send (some are absentee owners listed on tax rolls)?  

Then you can roll over your current portfolio bit by bit for one that requires little input from you.

I vote for vinyl, but I've seen the glue down stuff peel up (but maybe they didn't roll it down well enough after installation).

This is really powerful.Now I am rolling up my sleeves.. heck I am taking my shirt off, heck why stop there, I'll go naked if I have to!

You can already begin to see the massive increases in rent rolls downtown, Development tends to expand from the epicenter, that is why I am so high on these area's.   

That's how I've been rolling and getting by with it so far;) My main difficulty with it is categorizing the expenses deductible/depreciable, etc. and understanding the performance of each individual property.

@Joel S. a number of people in this thread mentioned it should just take a simple phone call to get the ball rolling.

Andrew Johnson “I use Appfolio out of santa barbara, ca its definitely not free and my property mgmt company passes those costs down to me which I think is around 50-60 bucks a month based on number of units under the service.I am able to see all reports from rent rolls, cash flow statements / trailing 12 month cash flow, tenant ledgers, maintenance requests, dialog between tenants and mgmt staff, resolutions to maintenance requests, move in pictures, move out pictures, or video, and many more features.What I like is that it allows the vendors to be in a dialog/text/chat box so they are prepared (vendor) prior to job assignment with lockbox codes, scope of work and pictures before they even go to the site so we dont waste time figuring things out and run up a huge $$$ bill for lack of efficiency.”

. $4k/month rent roll, pay $400k) you'll be okay.