Brandon Turner wrote a great article on the BP blog on apps a few months ago.http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2013/07/26/real-estate-apps/It pretty much covered most of the ones I use including, Trulia, Zillow, Realtor, Google Drive.One that isn't covered is Evernote, it's great for keeping notes and docs in the cloud for quick access anywhere.

Just discovered the podcasts probably 2 weeks ago.

Very unlikely that you will get your tenant to say you gave them this form as required.The Tax Account (BIRT) number is one that the City issues; they will probably want your SSN to give you the BIRT number.Some other links that you might find useful are located at this next link (I have no affiliation with the owner of the site - just passing along info that has already been compiled there):http://brownstonere.com/blog/landlordresourcesPhila is more tenant friendly than landlord friendly BTW - so in front of a judge the landlord will be expected to be the "pro" and have all paperwork in order ...

(I kind of had the lone ranger mentality at the time, not asking for help, and had not even discovered BP) That was about six years ago, and the extra work I put in has been totally destroyed (and I haven't even had bad tenants).

By the way, I read your blog post about playing to your strengths as an investor and really enjoyed it.

After reading several books on investing and reading through some blog posts and articles on BP, I got the impression that there are some realtors that might not have the experience or the patience to work with investors (particularly newbie investors!).

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Make sure you take full advantage of the vast resources here on BP including forums, blogs, podcasts, analysis tools, etc.

What I don't want to do is find myself discovering regulation changes when I am applying for a mortgage.

Then you discover your bed is as hard as plywood and it stinks like some old lady was chain smoking in there the night before.