The rental income I quoted is based on a market analysis as thorough as I'm capable of performing, and I always use what believe to be conservative numbers (I'm a worst-case-scenario type planner).

This feedback helps me get some confidence on my analyzing capabilities. 

There ia a survey Link in the email, please fill this out if you would like NAR to fight to keep 1031s.

If you are a decently hard worker, ethical, and plan on being an agent full time, the brokerages will be fighting over you. 

And even if I end up selling when moving, the right deal does seem to make sense over renting according to the nytimes calculator and so on, so long as the period of occupancy is high enough.I'll also suspiciously consider hard-money lending and other such pooling of capital, but I wonder about evaluating the capability and trustworthiness of those doing the heavy lifting without knowing much about REI myself.And thanks for keeping the real estate market humming along for chumps like me.

The accounting capabilities are limited but it does offer alot of useful features like a tenant portal and automated mailing service which we utilize on a regular basis.

you can also help by fixing some of the damages if you feel capable.

I am sure they would like to see past work, references, etc to prove you are capable. 

I use it quite a bit in my area to look up tax info, past sales, etc.Lately I have be tinkering with the search functions a lot more and found some really cool capabilities within the system. 

I'd say pay for it yourself, file with your insurance and let them fight whoever for reimbursement.Make sure you take lots of pictures and might want to get a couple written estimates for the insurance companys.