I am looking for property management software that would track incoming rents and automatically deduct his commission per rent payment so that he knows exactly what my payout would be each month.  50 units spread over 16 properties. 

Ive got a rental listed, lots of activity, no applications.

Has anyone used Buildium landlord software?

If you’ve analyzed anything using the software, I’d be curious to see :)

I’m trying to go from a tenant expense book to this professional software gadgets thingy.

Does anybody have a recommendation for small property management software?

Zillow is going to be your most time-efficient value-basis software.

Like Kai said - a lot of the books have been written in a very different market and give you advise that is simply not applicable for todays market!

@Tyler Brown,It sounds like your focus is on cash flow and your pretax return, but I would encourage you to look at your total return and consider the other benefits that real estate has to offer: amortization (not applicable with no debt), tax shelter (depreciation and deductions), appreciation (around 8% based on those numbers), and cash flow.Appreciation is very healthy based on the numbers you provided.

Also, I have not picked an application process yet.