Are these actually any improvement over a well formulated Excel spreadsheet?

You can't make changes or improvements, you can't even leave your things at the property, so what's the point?

This property performed brilliantly from 2011 to 2021.

We are doing alot of capital improvements which have been ignored.  

I’ve been picking up performing first-position notes lately and noticing a split — some folks love the steady income, others prefer the quick capital.

We are super busy but want to start to manage portfolio more strongly - the listing, pricing strategy and deciding on if any investments to make to improve the properties slightly (requiring knowing market to know what's worth it).

While I have a background in both Finance and IT (which led me into roles in real estate asset and investment management) I’m completely new to owning rental property myself.Professionally, I’ve focused on building software solutions and performing commercial-grade real estate valuations using tools like Argus Enterprise, ReaPage Fuel, and (of course) Excel.

Private/hard money for value adds and long-term traditional lenders for the refi and or purchase of performing assets that don't need renovations.

How have your rentals performed?

You lose the ability to sell units individually, but you gain control over the variables that actually drive long-term value: rents, expenses, and capital improvements.