The reason any accountant would love you for having separate accounts for properties is because of the extra work they can bill you for, pure and simple.

They do quarterly market surveys and the info in those reports are pure gold.

I help a lot of house hackers and this is a common question, usually centered around the absolute best ROI and going purely off numbers.My question back to you is where do YOU want to live?

In looking at other markets, I'm looking to make my first pure investment property purchase.

Hi everyone,I am mostly focused on acquiring MFH properties in a high cash flow area like Birmingham, AL. I will be non-local no matter what because I spend half the year outside the US. Low cost, low appreciation mar...

Other sites can be funded by advertisers or have other goals in mind other than just pure data collection, and you won't always know how they calculate different metrics. 

However, the pure essence of having a broker involved means you're opening up a commitment to pay when you could have eliminated the need to pay any commission by representing yourself with an existing tenant.Brokers typically earn their commission for the heavy lifting work of finding tenants or buyers and then getting them interested in certain property's, not necessarily for "transacting", assuming they are knowledgeable about the marketplace. 

The focus is purely on tenants.

I speak from experience of owning several such properties and while I made a good profit it was pure luck of timing picking the up after the crash.

If you are doing purely to save 3% your broker gets the 3% and you get whatever you negotiate for your cut....