Having said that, I just switched to a cloud-based solution (you can access from your iphone or anyone's laptop that has internet).

@Sandra Jorgensen @Neil Narayan - likely because Cedar Park is pretty much land locked, Round Rock is somewhat "central", good schools, good proximity to major employers, Leander is close to the new Apple campus, and with land availability somewhat cheaper?

Let's not compare apples to oranges, and expect equality. 

Our developer has a list with well over 100 items on it (including our broken iPhone app and the upcoming wholesaling calculator!)

I have a section for evaluating it as a flip, and another one for evaluating rentals - it allows me to evaluate a rental in three different scenarios - regular purchase, ideal price and BRRR scenario - and also to compare deals apple-to-apple (since you'll be looking at so many houses that you'll get lost in numbers and features and no longer know which one is a good deal, which one is not and only looks good because of some subjective criteria, etc.).

I'd try to get an idea of typical response times from those who would be responding to my needs--at different times of the year (Does Y always go on 2 weeks vacation in September, creating a backlog of work that holds up quarterlies--how do they handle maternity leave, etc...).Things such as above, in addition to specifics of your businesses.I would also ask them to draw up an apples to apples mock yearly cost for gross services, and discuss audit costs and audit payment plans, as well as where they fall on aggressiveness of tax write offs, from conservative to potentially dodgy, and make sure that fits your risk profile.Everyone will have different opinions about what is important to them, and in person visits might help clear the muddy waters a bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?

But I'll take a tall white hot chocolate or hot apple cider from Starbucks almost anyday!!

So spending time & money trying to get them to pay for said damages is a non starter.Understand that proper tenant screening is a must. but it does not mean you will eliminate all bad apples.

Seems like only the rotten apples are getting to foreclosure now that short sales are faster and easier to obtain.

Not every body wants to deal with all the things that come with larger deals.Everybody can own Apple stock not everybody want to own a company like Apple or run a hedge fund, more power to people like you who can make it happen!!!