You'll be missing out on free tools though for other management tasks.

They have a lot of different tasks that going into MANAGING a property.

It is a very robust app that can be customized many different ways but in essence it could hold all your docs and allow you to change, attach, assign tasks, all while being shared with a team...

That can either be shorter term gigs like selling some unused items on eBay/Amazon, or an actual bona fide regular second source of income (a second job or, Uber/Lyft, Task rabbit or some other gig economy thing, an online business, etc.).

Which meant it took us 5 straight weekends after purchase to complete this task.

Lucky for me I was stubborn enough to secretly behind the scenes I did a second set of tasks... but MY WAY!

But, if I came in with a handful of tasks to accomplish and I hit them, then I was successful either way.Be sure and come by and say hi while we are all in Nashville!  

Pros of buying a pick-up is that its very functional with most tasks & most built since the 90s are pretty heavily built.

There is always a "dance" that goes on between how much time you spend running numbers on a property you'd like to but don't control vs spending time to control a property you don't know is feasible.Aside from inputting data into a pro forma it is imperative for you to understand the development process itself which is accomplished by creating a critical path that shows the sequential order of the tasks that need to be executed along with their timing and the 3rd party players, functions and costs associated with doing those tasks.The combined information you get from the pro forma and the critical path are foundational in forming the agreement that secures the property which will be articulated in a purchase and sale agreement or in your case a JV. 

The PM would give me peace of mind allowing me to focus on other important tasks.