I'm currently spending majority of my time in podcasts, and reading, but realized quickly that communication and networking is a key piece of the successful investor.What's your long term goal?

My units are in B- to C areas, so the apartments don't show like magazine show pieces when occupied. 

I am purchasing a piece of vacant land (with a low value - sales price approx. $2K) in Citrus County, FL.

@Matt HarrisI use Buildium to keep my finances in order and I can every piece of paper that comes across my desk and file it by property and then by date.

That is the missing piece.

(It's hard to figure out if somebody said "D" or "T", or "P" or "B", over the phone.)If you decide you need more than about three or four digits, try separating it into a couple of pieces with a dash, like 12-345 or 123-456. 

The downside of pulling pieces aimed at individual bits of home automation is now you have a bunch of unrelated systems that do not play nice or scale together.I've eschewed the Honeywell thermostats as they are propretary and Honeywell has a long tradition of not playing well with others.When I started down this road five years ago, there was not very little from which to choose.

At home, I get two or three pieces of mail a year that are addressed to the original owner of the house, who hasn't owned it since approximately the mid-1990s. 

It is amazing to me how when you manage your own properties how you don't notice a bad roof until you find pieces of shingle.

This question is kind of like "I have this small piece to a rocket ship what would be my next step to connect this piece to the ship to make it start up...."