The Metro Atlanta Chamber identified fintech (financial technology), mobility and IoT (Internet of Things), health information technology, cybersecurity, B2B software, smart grid technology and film/digital media/entertainment tech as key growth segments. 

I work with and represent alot of private/hard money lenders, and unfortunately I am seeing more and more stories of people saying they paid an application/lock fee of 5-15k and the "lender" simply ran off with their money. 

Anyone have any newer software suggestions?

When you're looking in C/D areas, it's hard (not impossible) to hold to strict rental applicant criteria (3X rent for income, no previous eviction history, etc).

The date of closing my listing went up and I started getting applicants right away.

Everyone I've reached out to said they would call or send me an application.

What software or systems should I invest into that will help me getting more leads and also help better manage the leads I have?

Always great to meet another software person!

It's a great tool but no matter what pricing software you use, you'll need to steer it.

Find a property management software that you like, and spend some time getting comfortable with it. We personally use TenantCloud, but others on this site use Cozy, Buildium, or others.