I've been reading quite a bit about real estate investing and am now finally getting into actually researching and crunching numbers, which leads me to this head scratching moment...I'm perusing RealtyRates.com and am looking at the national data for apartments.

We would like to set up a Computer as a Main Computer Data Base.

There is also a lot of missing data.  

Getting private lenders and going till the transfer and closing is another part.Also if I were going through this route, I would not be bent upon how property looks today, as I can update all that as long as it is the right location, I want it to be in.Ideally this strategy is not for a novice and it might not even work in a hot market.

We use Quicken, and I transfer that data to Excel so I can more easily manipulate and forecast from it.

I guess I was concerned about how to use/transfer the cash without it being co-mingling.

The plan is to transfer to RE full-time once I believe I can support myself (~$60k/yr, which should be fairly easy in SD).Also, I'd obviously want someone who is fair with the commission split, and most importantly, can coach me to become a great agent! 

we dont have the data we need. 

You ask about their returns and they will usually tell you or at least they will provide some data so you can figure it out yourselves.

There are only two ways to "transfer" ALL the Fee Simple Bundle of Rights of Ownership.