There are a lot of excellent softwares available that are free for tracking or very inexpensive if you use certain upgrade features like online payments or e-signature.BiggerPockets just announced FREE access to RentRedi for all Pro Members.

There are so,e safeguards available; third party loan servicers, escrow agents, using joint bank accounts, etc.  

For a print / hard copy for local people stick with Word or PowerPoint . . . very simple and you can make it as impressive as you want.For web-based use, even a basic web site builder allows you to insert pictures and if you are using E-mail, simply save the hard copy file as a .PDF and attach it to the E-mail.If you want I can send you what we use . . .

E-mail a copy to your agent and the title company.

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It will also be less costly to file a schedule e on your personal taxes than separately file an LLC.

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At the end of the day, long distance investment is mostly a series of phone calls, e-mails, and studying the market, all which can be done while taking baby for a walk or during nap times!

E g your LOC’s add up to $200,000 and a decent investment property is $150,000… if so then to me you can always pull that money back out via refi, or via a sale… this might be wayyy to simple as I didn’t look at where you are from but even so a version of it could be possible even if you have to do REI out of state.

I would love to  make a couple of recommendations for you:First - Investor Meetup tomorrow, October 6th at The Huddle (2400 E.