I'm of the mind that one should make up their own mind by trying any tool especially if it has a free trial and seeing if it solves a problem for them.  

I have now, after some trial and error, a wonderful property manager, a young mom who likes the flexibility, and who i am trying to treat very well, and a couple of good cleaners and a handyman who allow me to run this from another country. 

Upon purchasing free trials from the 3 credit bureaus website my credit is 50 points higher than what was being shown on creditkarma.com (I encourage everyone who uses that site to also get scores from the actual credit bureaus...

This is called trial and error and it works as you are living proof of.

Do a 1 year lease, but with a 60 day trial period.

It takes a lot of efforts, education, failures, trial runs, and funds to get to one deal, then to second, then scaling to bigger deals…I always have my grain of salt on those success stories - the strategies they said in those stories in my opinions are mostly very high level, repetitive on the same thing over and over with little enlightening content to me (maybe it’s not to others).

We'll trial a morning meet up at a coffee shop, and an evening meetup at a brewery.

I look forward to hearing about everyone's success as well as the trials and tribulations with their real estate ventures. 

You really need to make sure that the GP is as honest and responsible as much as yourself.During the trial, it was revealed that the GP declared Bankruptcy not just once, but TWICE.

SketchUp (her pick) - This software is free (30 day trial, but all basic features are free past that).