If you're pretty well versed in programming excel, you can get a standard property management spreadsheet and customize it to your liking.

I like @Adam Schneider, @Chris Martin, and @BJ Henderson 's remarks.The bottom line is that your question is too broad to answer, as there are way too many unstated variables.But if I were to make some assumptions about your question, my own couple of pennies is that if you're smart, driven and persistent (and probably a few other choice adjectives), a beginning investor has a chance of making it work in the Raleigh market.

The software would also have to ask you a lot about your assumptions, constraints, preferences and goals.

I purchased a 620k half duplex in East Dallas / Knox area and I custom built it with an AirBnb suite + have a roommate paying me $1,350/mo.

May be i can work with them to customize, but also i ll explore different options. 

She found potential customers – boyfriend and girlfriend and their 2 children moving in together from different households.We asked $1700 in rent for the house and they met 3 times rent income requirement.

So it has both pros and cons.I would personally not buy a business that starts off with a built in negative that will limit your customer pool by so much....

I communicate that with customers in the beginning.

I'd been living in a custom sprinter van I built for a year+ so I could save up for my first home.

The few I have talked to in the Stuttgart, AK area have either had extremally poor customer service or just been unresponsive.