Quicken, Excel and a wall covered with white boards are my only tools today and I feel that I am not keeping up.I am seriously considering making the move to Quickbooks, but in a prior career I was a software consultant and I can't help but be skeptical of how much value will Quickbooks bring to the table considering the purchase cost, education, set-up consultations, hardware upgrades, security, etc...Currently reading "The Real Estate Investor's Pocket Calculator" and trying to decifer which calculations I should be using to evaluate my properties and make better decisions regarding improvements and rents.I am VERY OPEN MINDED and WILLING to investigate any direction or leads you might suggest regarding software and/or services to help me get my business optimized (or at least running more efficiently with better data).

We wish that it was the actual current balance, but that is credit data, not public records data, so we don't have access to it.

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I am an Investment Realtor that specializes in investment property research and data for my clients.

So although you've already received fantastic advise, I'll share my thoughts just as another data point.I have been looking at a number of properties to start getting into flipping approach a long time friend (20+ years) who I knew had excess funds.

Often times banks foreclosing on commercial properties do not have much data to give as a seller as the previous owner being foreclosed on was less than cooperative.

If you see a deal where the numbers look attractive, contact the seller (or broker) and ask for financial data to support those numbers.

Ernie resells court data and that will save you much time. 

I would like to gather some more data and see what it is like from coast to coast.I like to ask what the top 3 questions they would like answered about a market before choosing to invest there, I have begun to see a pattern and would like to pose the same question here.So please let me know what you think!

I have met a number of people and gone to a number of different real estate networking type events, attempting to learn as much as possible in as soon as possible.