A good one will also have skin in the game and will even be able to bring new acquisitions to your attention.

@Caleb Rehg  I would advise your first step is to search this site for college student rentals and student rentals and read all you can. 

If the software is not simplifying your life or making you more accurate, you shouldn't use it.Software does have extremely helpful features like online payments, marketing syndication (click a button, and your property is advertised on multiple sites), electronic document review/signing, maintenance tracking, and owner reports.

Hey Jaxin,Congrats on jumping into the real estate game.

They will get deported and when they do, I guess young Americans will have to work in our factories, fields and housing job sites and give up the dream of being Youtubers while sponging  off their parents till her 38 years old. 

For anyone that is looking at developing or purchasing an STR in Packwood, WA I would take a peek at the numbers that are on the rental sites and the amount of bookings. 

Adding bedrooms to both units sounds like a game-changer for rent potential. 

I think investing for cash flow to start is a slow game.

Cash flow is a sucker's game.

Somehow I think it's better to hold onto my own money and keep that dry powder on the sidelines waiting to get into the game if there are some emergency expenditures (haha, very likely with the kinds of deals I'm thinking about in class C neighborhoods).