@Martin Robertson Hi Marty,QuickBooks Online Plus - you will need one subscription for each EINQuickBooks Desktop - depending on your need Premier, Accountant or Enterprise versionsGita

There are great services out there that assist in marketing your property, creating online applications and screening your tenants for you. 

@Steve KenoyerLicensing education is state specific.California, specifically, does not have reciprocity with other states.You'll have to go through the education and testing requirements for both California and Oregon, most likely online.

If you can't find them at the auction or if it is online, you can take the list of your target properties...maybe 10-20 and find out who buys them and go hunt them down after the auction or when they get the property. 

Is this a standard practice?

Per parcel info in tax records online, it's showing as 5 units.

If so, you are practicing real estate without a license and subject to all penalties and/or fines that goes along with that in your state. 

(I am now getting Quickbooks online setup, so we should be good to go in the future.)But I also had a dream that once I had a partnership I wouldn't have to break-down all the income and expenses by property for the tax return each year.

They are in the business of making money by scaling up their lending practice.

This is incredibly frustrating and I cannot find anything worthwhile online.