Right now I'm using Buildium as my software which I would't want to go without.

By day, I am a software developer, but for the past year or so I have been diving in to all things real estate with goals for short-term (flips) and long-term (rents) real estate investing.

I've since continued to work in IT and now work as a Senior Consultant for a well known software company.

So the candidate would need to be organized, clean, dependable, able to work part-time but pick up the pace when extra vacancies, able to coordinate maintenance person and contractors, use of computer (can learn the management software easily).

I am a software developer by trade and will soon be moving to Richmond, VA to begin my development career after graduation.I have been interested in REI for about a year now and have spent most of this time reading books, listening to podcast, lurking the BP forums, and attending a few local REIA meetings.

I'm looking for your recommendation on preferred software for book keeping.

We spoke with the software company they currently use for management and got a quote from them but it seemed very high!

Is the software in general, good for any market?

@mark russell - it is a paid software (www.callrail.com) used for tracking numbers - calls and texts. 

I too am searching for my first deal and since it has been 11 months since your post I was wondering what software to you decide on and if that illusive first deal has been done.