I recently attended a free seminar on real estate investing where the gentleman who was hosting essentially stated that he operates better with clearly outlined steps and activities.

You can do this and you wouldnt have to be relying on a system like Zillow or some big hosting site with lots of other competitors.

So any individual incident can cost a lot since none of it is bundled into a management fee.  

Remote access – you can do this with QuickBooks Desktop but you need an additional software product or use QuickBooks Hosting (at a higher price)Auto Send Reports – reports or report groups can be scheduled to send automaticallyAutomatic upgrades – this is both a good and a bad feature, with QuickBooks Online you are almost always running the most up to date version (whether you want to or not)Company ScorecardDelayed charges/billing – enter charges to be billed laterIncome list/transaction centerInvoice automation – automatically create invoice from unbilled activityMore than one A/R or A/P account per journal entryLocation tracking, a secondary level of class tracking (QB Online Plus only)FIFO Inventory valuation (available in QuickBooks Enterprise but only with the additional cost Advanced Inventory feature)There Are More DifferencesI’m sure that this isn’t an exhaustive list of differences – please feel free to point out others!

Gary is an investor and real estate agent in the GTA who hosts a monthly REI gathering.  

Here's how he has it structured:- he finds the deals (key here, your strong asset)- he has a rehab team on the ready that he works with- he is active in local REI Clubs (yes a nice source of leads for you)- he is also hosting free 1 night seminar per week that caters to this topic- he then has investors on the ready to pull the trigger when a deal is found- he has set terms already, 90 day velocity, x% return on invested funds.

They are like short courses on different strategies and the hosts do a good job of making it educational by asking a lot of how and why questions.  

Plan on doing some 1031 exchanges and bundle equity and mortgages from a few of my smaller properties (in financial terms) and use the funds to leverage into a larger property.  

Maybe we ought to teach them to better methods.Perhaps this is why most people seem to dislike bandit signs (including our BP hosts, @Brandon Turner and @Joshua Dorkin).

@Taylor Jennings and @Ryan Mullin usually host a monthly meetup in Indianapolis.