I have participated in webinars, reading real estate books and annotating, articles, and forums, watching youtube, understanding financing and analyzing properties and this has benefited my process greatly.

Jody, I am brand new to investing so I an not certain as to exactly how bad the area is I just know its not good.

For example, if you pay the plumber with a personal check, you need to have the llc transfer/pay money to yourself and annotate it in your records. 

Most importantly:It created a pathway to phase out the massive subsidies FEMA has been giving to the owners of properties in repetitive flood zones;It required new mapping with the effect of classifying more property as flood-prone, expanding the risk pool;And because maps cover broad areas an not specific parcels it better codified the process of contesting flood-zone designation through Elevation Certificates.As soon as the subsidies started being phased out, there was a ruckus because the rates went sky high.

In another note ( an not a lot of people talk about this) the best no money down to learn and invest on RE is to work for a company that is already doing it.. 

They can take, edit, resize, annotate, add smilies and post a picture on a tiny phone with ease but can't change a light bulb or swap out a battery at the back of a wall clock, let alone keeping an eye on a buried pipe or a leaky water heater relief valve. 

If you wish to pay anything from other accounts and I do that with a few things like utilities, insurance, etc, then I use my banks tagging feature to tag the transaction to annotate what the transaction is for.

After those items are completed, a second inspector will come back and verify they’ve been done...it could be a different inspector that also finds different items that need to be completed that were not annotated the first time.I have yet to experience that, but I can see how that is very frustrating.

I made an annotation.  

Notability... or any note taking app that can annotate over PDF.I use it to hand-sign PDFs on my phone.