This is not a promotion for their services, but it has been an excellent tool for my direct mailings. www.microbilt.com

Excellent idea, I would vote for that!

Most people seem to be using Quickbooks, Buildium, an Excel but the factoring in the cost (Free) and features that GNUCash does have, I think it is well worth it.

Postpurchase: have a checklist of all the documents you're supposed to have for a note file for the notes state, and ensure your documents are all there. 1b: step3: I use excel to calculate the financial results of different scenarios, and use those numbers to determine a max bid. 2a, step 7.

Scott's wife Carol, who has excellent design skills!  

I am a brand new Investor and I am obtaining quality training on an online Real Estate Investing School. I am not going to mention the name, because I get paid for enrolling new students and that is NOT what this post...

Being proactive is a excellent strategy!

I've been collecting info on direct mail prospect in excel but its a pain in the "tookus" let's cal it to add to that data and then recall only certain line items that match the criteria i'd like to mail to.Hopefully by tinkering around with access I'll be able to build a simple-yet-effective database.A cloud-based CRM/Database would be ideal, huh?

If that is the case, understanding computers would be excellent!

There is an excellent article written by Brandon Turner of this site, here: http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2013/11/02/hack-housing-get-paid-live-free/It seems that this is a growing option among us younger guys especially, but like I said, it seems pretty hard to beat.