Arthur,BP is by far the best resource on the web, or in print for that matter.

Call them and ask or check out their web site.Most cities will probably say, "Yes", you need a business license.

Have called their 1 888# numerous times it is always busy,day or night, have now launched a fraud investigation be aware of DREW DOWNS LLC

Ideally, you would make the policies publicly available (e.g. on your web site) in case anyone challenged them.

Look on their web site.

They'll have you photographing and advertising units, posting to web sites, taking tenant calls, screening tenants, showing units, maybe doing Section 8 walk throughs.

will not bore you with the numerous court fillings and communications where we tried to explain common sense like "hey, remember when we TOLD you they were doing this, and we WANTED to evict and YOU wouldn't let us".

Danny,One other thing to consider is to try different avenues of web marketing.

It seems like this web site is the most informative and packed with people who actually walks the talk.I am definetely looking forward to making some friends here, learn from the experienced members.

Excel is not free, but pretty cheap and more robust, but if you want free then try Google Docs, it has an excel-like feature, plus you can access in any web-browser.