You can get good file encryption software for very little cost.

There is an old saying in real estate, "find a great deal and the money will come," but this is ONLY true if you have dug your well before you need the water.My advice to you, if you are serious about syndicating deals, is to first figure out the kind of deals you want to buy and develop an "investment thesis" - what you want to buy, where you want to buy it, and why you think this makes sense.  

I'm wondering if anyone has knowledge and/or experience with a cheap software solution for a small HOA (26 units)?

I think my ultimate goal would be to own apartment buildings and maybe get into development.

I've been focusing the money that I would be using for investing to pay off credit cards from school as I graduated 8 - 9 months ago and have been working as a Software Developer ever since.

. :)     I'm an architect by education and practice most of my life, but in recent years have also gotten into real estate acquisition, development and management, both in the USA and here in Shanghai.  

One of the local developers down here (DC) actually purchased the old HSBC tower in downtown and my company helped them with the preconstruction efforts.

I would like to continue working as a Software Engineer and build a portfolio to pay for my children's college in the future, take nice vacations, and pay my current monthly mortgage. 

I worked with a FANTASTIC developer from upwork to aggregate all the valuable public data on distressed properties into a program that cross-references all those separate data sources and finds the matching data from each list.

I worked with a FANTASTIC developer from upwork to aggregate all the valuable public data on distressed properties into a program that cross-references all those separate data sources and finds the matching data from each list.