Mainly they are a function of the availability of financing and investor sentiment, which have as much to do with psychology as anything.

I think partnerships are great (and necessary) to grow your investing strategy. 

Okay thank you to everyone for your input I’m just starting out and financially  do not have the funds so I will stick to partnerships and wholesaling right now.

He was about to loose the section 8 partnership, which also contained 6 months worth of rent for, four different tenants.

While Bigger Pockets is an incredible resource, it could use better search functionality.

ACRE is primarily a cashflow focused system and cashflow is a function of risk. 

During this time educate yourself so that you know what role in the team/ partnership would be best for you. and practice those skills Just a heads up it may take a while to land your first deal, maybe 1+ years from when you start looking depending on you education level and partners experience.

The towns installed & maintained alarm system was also non-functional so it failed to alert so we had a driveway of waste.The ongoing problem with tenants is what gets flushed & with 6 units we never know who is at fault.

Try to avoid any form of a functional obsolescence. 

So far we have used it mostly for Tenant Management, and still use a tenant screening component that the our local landlords association offers, and do accounting in Sage/Peachtree which is what we use for our 'day job' business for over 20 years.We plan on testing and probably moving to Rentec's options for both of those functions by the beginning of the new year.