Here in Pittsburgh new investments by Google, Apple, Facebook and Autodesk is a true testament to the growing infrastructure here.

I used a free iPhone app called BizXpensTrkr then export it to a spreadsheet, but just a spreadsheet works fine and saves $50-80 a month.

It's not a fair apples to apples comparison. 

We scan our receipts using either our printer/copier/scanner or Scanner Pro (iPhone App) to the receipts folder for that particular property in our Google Drive.

.$53k profit on $81k cash invested is 65% in 3 months.Apples to apples, had I used all my own money, my profit would have been $60k on $306k invested for a 19.6% return in 90 days.Other deal I just posted about in another thread:$250k acquisition, $15k rehab, sell at $409k, $30k re-sell/hold costs, $10k eviction or cash for keys, profit of $104k.

Of course I would be reselling mine as a regular sale...so apples to apples, oranges to oranges.

I enjoy being a web developer, and I’m actually transitioning to building mobile iOS apps (yea I’m a apple guy) so most of my time is devoted to that but I always had a interest with real estate investing and finding new sources of income so I plan to make time for that.

Even on liquid investment like stocks, some savers have Apple stocks received 30 some years ago that they paid $1 a par.

Seattle is notoriously hard on owners/hosts, and the last thing you want is a potential bad apple playing the "eviction game" with you, tying up your property for an extended amount of time thout cash flow.

I found a list of basic questions and added on some here and there so I can compare apples to apples for the banks.