Then the day or so before the closing their title company called me up (which I should have know was suspicious for them to call me because they do everything via email and portal submission) saying the email with the final documents is too big a file to send to you so just sign the signature pages I'm going to send to you and send them back to me via mail and it will be just as good because we sent you the same docs to review earlier.

They should set you up with a buyer portal on the MLS, and then the fun really begins.3)Start analyzing good and bad properties like crazy on the MLS portal.

Then you get the best of both worlds and your accountant is happy you are using QB too.Where something like Rentec really excels is giving you automation in letting your tenants go online and make payments, or report maintenance via the tenant portal. 

We essentially have a portal we login to and from there we have access to:MLS another button for RPR one for REALIST, one for instanet forms.

you can look at FEMA maps in the mean time. https://msc.fema.gov/portal

Their open data portal is constantly updated and you can filter the results to include the most recent violations. 

Do you have an online owner portal?

The mortgage company will do a flood search officially, called a flood certification, but here's a site to DIY search: https://msc.fema.gov/portal/search

The Atlanta Housing Authority posts your results, pass or fail, to your account on their web portal.

The public is free to create their own data exchange and there are many RE portals that attempt this (often largely composed of a feed from the MLS).