Also, does anyone have a good excel sheet or Web calculator to double check hard money costs?

If they haven't applied and something comes up on a web search, I will ask for an explanation before I go any further.

Understand that there are a ton of details too numerous to explain in a post.

The market has been pretty slow, however I have had numerous requests to rent. 

I think they suggest using your own 3rd party website and putting link to the Buildium stuff on that web site.Accounting is actually my weakest skill, so unsure how much I could help you with that. 

We have a glossary published on our web site at the link below, hope this helps.http://www.rcm.company/home/terms-definitions/ Nice self-promotion,  but that site is sans acronyms and specifically MFA is missing. 

As far as investing keep researching opportunities in your area,, Farmington is a close community to Minneapolis, so your area has a lot of potentialYou could also look into becoming a member of the Minnesota Multi Housing Association , MMHA. located in Bloomington so your side of Mpls.. look it up on the web. they have member services that include classes in property management, leasing, maintenance ot mention a few, and have a great member based meeting where investors market properties they have for sale off MLS. the membership cost is relatively small for what you can get and they have listing for career opportunities that are put on by property management companies that are not listed on other sites. and you could list that your looking for employment opportunity also.. 

Start there; it can be had free on his web site or you can order it on Amazon.

@Chris BinghamThe relationship between domains, hosting, and web development is still one of those things that I feel is more complicated than it should be, and I am saying that as a software engineer.I would recommend paying somebody for a few hours of help to get over the line.

I like it because I can adjust things via the web or an app.