I am a real estate broker, and homes that I have sold to investors have large down payments or cash.

Make 100 calls, talk to 10-15 people, maybe find 1 person interested in an offer.

Real estate wire fraud is becoming more common every year.

Yesterday I attended a meeting of Connecticut Real Estate Investor Association and it felt like it was primarily occupied by people who knew little about real estate and wanted to be spoonfed information by an expensive coaches?

Salesforce when I have the budget and SugarCRM when I have no budget.For real estate, best is to probably get something that syncs easily with gmail and then includes that email trail in your CRM.  

IRS Publications 946 (How to Depreciate Property) and 527 (Residential Rental Property) can offer some guidance. 

Many of the PMC and Showing Scheduling software companies offer syndication services.

If you have a history of having rented the property by the room, a lender will very well look at the rent you have gotten and lend based on that (or at least the DSCR won't reduce below whatever LTV is offered on the appraisal).

Probably worth mentioning, TurboTax can facility real-time assisting from tax professionals if needed, obviously this will be at extra cost.Hope this helps! 

I owned a real estate franchise here in Bocas for many years and recently sold it.