If the potential tax savings outweigh the cost of the service - and you're planning on keeping the property for at least 5-7 years, a seg study can be a really good tool to get some tax savings up front. 

I was trying to be nice and just explain that you can't actually manage real estate if you have no money and no experience.

There are free sites, but they only pull 3 months of actual data, then their algorithm projects the rest of the year.

House hacking in South Jersey is actually a pretty solid bet compared to other parts of New Jersey where you are guaranteed negative cash flow.

hey joel what services do you offer?

We also use AppFolio and we also have it integrated with a lot of other software that has allowed us to provide even better service.

You don't need the actual receipt for the smoke alarms.

Is it possible to actually work in tandem during a transition with 2 property managers? 

But for real estate development there are not gurus like that really (other than land flippers), but there are a few colleges that actually have pretty good real estate development programs, such as Cornell, University of Southern California, Arizona State University and others. 

We are currently using Excel for the most part for tracking the rentals, and using a third party account servicing company for tracking most of the seller financed loans (Weststar).