How are you going to monitor the quality of the workYou don't always have a lot of time to do youe due diligence and get answers to these questions. 

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.

I’m no expert by any means, I don’t even have my own first investment property yet but I’ve been monitoring the market here as I’m looking.

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

We're still monitoring the Boston area but I have been doing a lot of research into the growth of some cities in Maine.

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?

I think the level of monitoring the admin's do, helps those scammers know this isn't the place to find a good target.