@Ben Trageser Stessa is an excellent platform for tracking investors' income and expenses; it is user-friendly.

Quote from @Sabian Ripplinger: with managing 5 to 20 properties, what is the best platform or strategy to use to streamline everything? 

It's what I use for my rental portfolio, and they've got a great platform / app.

For emergency calls, a lot of smaller landlords either set up a dedicated phone line with a call answering service or use a virtual assistant type service that screens calls and only forwards true emergencies to you.

🙌You’re totally right — tools like Qualtrics/SurveyMonkey and SEMrush/SpyFu are powerful, but I’ve mostly seen them used for marketing/consumer research rather than for real estate investing decisions.That’s what I keep bumping into: plenty of great general platforms, but nothing that brings together real estate–specific data points like:• Voucher demand or housing authority activity (for S8)• Days on market for rentals in a micro-neighborhood• Vacancy + “desirability” indicators (crime/schools)Out of curiosity — if there were a tool that gave you that kind of “plug in an address → get all the market intelligence” insight in one place, what data would be the most valuable for you personally?

If you're open to sharing, I'm sure many here would love to know:Just out of curiosity, which CRM platform did you build this successful process on?

Now I have time again to dedicate to learning. 

The main drawback is limited track record—the sponsors started in 2019 and have less than 10 years of direct real estate experience, with backgrounds in non-RE fields prior.Based on this, my current criteria for sponsors I’d consider investing with are:Focus on 1–2 regionsFocus on one asset classHave 10+ years of direct real estate investing experiencePrimarily dedicated to running investments (vs. running podcasts/courses/events)Appropriate amount of capital raised / projects going on in a given year.My question to the community:Are these the right criteria to evaluate sponsors, or am I missing key factors?

Currently I use one credit card and dedicate it ONLY for the real estate business.

To pull this off, you may want to use social media platforms to find your next great deal.But how do you utilize these platforms to find real estate sellers who are motivated to work with you?