You need to line up multiple sources of funding to buy your deals.You need to learn how to find off-market, discount properties.You need to learn how to analyze those properties…And make offers (both traditional and seller financing).You need to develop an airtight process for managing contractors long distance.You need to setup your LLC, bank account, bookkeeping, find a good property analysis software…The list goes on.

It's pricy but it will allow for automated follow up by email, voice mail, and text, and if the lead contacts you the follow-up stops automatically.  

The Collateralincludes the following property that Borrower now owns or shall acquire or create immediately upon theacquisition or creation thereof: all tangible and intangible personal property, including, but not limited to: (a)inventory, (b) equipment, (c) instruments, including promissory notes (d) chattel paper, including tangiblechattel paper and electronic chattel paper, (e) documents, (f) letter of credit rights, (g) accounts, includinghealth-care insurance receivables and credit card receivables, (h) deposit accounts, (i) commercial tort claims, (j)general intangibles, including payment intangibles and software and (k) as-extracted collateral as such termsmay from time to time be defined in the Uniform Commercial Code.

Once you do get the property designed and fixed it up I'd advice you get someone to build an automated system, this way all the tedious things will be done with.

I would have concerns about the viability of that market given long term trends towards off-shoring, automation, and the shift of U.S. economy to be more service-based.

They are a property management company that is seeking a software to manage mobile home parks.

This rule is applied to each property separately unless you make an election to pull all properties together for the purposes of these rules Thus if you have a full time day job as a software engineer working 2080 hours, you would need 2081 hours in your real estate work - it would take some very good contemporaneous time logs for the IRS to agree with you on being a qualified real estate professional.The 500 hours you allude to is part of the material participation hurdle you also must cross.

Then, I'd work with a reputable accounting software like Quickbooks or Wave.

Zoning, Finance, short term rental insurance, property management software such as owner reservations or  guesty,  being all major  online travel agencies not just one,  reviews, cleaners,  property managers and why you should try not to use one,  issues, risk,  being a good Market, finding properties amenable to doing this,  unhappy Neighbors, taxes, remote vs.

Does anyone use a management "software" that has an API?