19 Best Real Estate Investing Apps We Couldn’t Live Without

Ashley:
This is Authentic Estate Rookie, episode 194. My identify is Ashley Kehr, and I’m here with my co-host, Tony Robinson.

Tony:
And welcome to the True Estate Rookie Podcast, wherever each and every week, 2 times a week, we bring you the inspiration, data and training you require to kickstart your serious estate investing career. So Ashley Kehr, what is heading on nowadays. I see you never have your regular hip hop T-shirt on. You obtained some state on nowadays. Felt like switching it up, I see.

Ashley:
Yeah. You know what? I really feel like most people is aware my gangster side, so I acquired to exhibit my countryside a very little little bit right here.

Tony:
Obtained to represent the two sides.

Ashley:
Acquired my Kenny Chesney, she thinks my tractor’s hot, T-shirt on. Yeah, so I basically discovered the other working day, this bin in our basement and it is all my husband’s previous T-shirts from when… I imply, he’s a, do not want to brag, and I’m a ton young than him, so he has all these ’90s T-shirts from concerts he went to. So I was likely by way of all of them, I’m like, “Geez, some of these are interesting, classic, nation T-shirts,” so I may well get started-

Tony:
There you go.

Ashley:
… throwing them out in this article on the podcast.

Tony:
You bought your individual thrift shop. Yeah, you obtained your individual thrift shop in your basement.

Ashley:
Yeah.

Tony:
I appreciate that. Well, what else is new Ash? What’s heading on?

Ashley:
So my business enterprise husband or wife, Joe, who’s basically been on the podcast in advance of, he’s been pretty stagnant, shall I say, in his actual estate investing in the previous, probably, 12 months and a 50 percent. He constructed his individual home. He experienced a newborn, so he’s been tremendous fast paced. Very well, he has been talking to me a minimal bit far more about receiving another deal, working on a project and now, I was so very pleased. He sent me a residence and he reported, “I established up the exhibiting and we’re heading at 5:30 nowadays.” I explained, “I am so proud of you for obtaining the deal, receiving us to showing. Now, how are you likely to spend for it?” He’s like, “Well, I’m inadequate, so you acquired to pay back that out.” But, I was super pleased for him that he is ready to get back into investing and having some initiative following taking some time off. He has a comprehensive time landscaping organization that he operates, so it is even now his aspect hustle that he does, but yeah. Fired up for him to get back again into it.

Tony:
That’s magnificent. What type of house is it? Is it a solitary family members or duplex?

Ashley:
Yeah, it is a solitary loved ones and it is truly right near his household where by we’ve also procured a home prior to. This space, there’s essentially a squander administration dump web site. I never even know, a landfill, I guess that’s what it is known as, and in that town… So he life on the considerably conclusion of the town and the landfill is on the other facet of the city, so we obtain attributes around his facet because the landfill, they truly shell out the vast majority of the assets taxes.

Tony:
That is brilliant.

Ashley:
It’s one thing to do with, oh, since of the smell of the rubbish. Well, you cannot odor it at all when you’re on the other side of the city. So the house taxes, I necessarily mean, are ridiculously low-cost, specially in New York State, so we discover that quite desirable to obtain in this area.

Tony:
Idea for new traders, constantly seem for the landfills. That’s where you’ll locate the very best bargains likely forward. No, amazing. I’m fired up for you fellas. Maintain us posted on how that deal turns out and I’m happy to see Joe back again in the recreation.

Ashley:
Yeah. I do not know. Joe was on one episode. We did a partnership. It was with Sarah as well. We experienced her on speaking about partnerships, so you fellas will have to go again and obtain that in the 1 of our past episodes and get a listen.

Tony:
Yeah. Great. Properly, happy matters are going together. I indicate, we’re active, chaotic, busy, correct now, but one of the issues we did most a short while ago that has been tremendously practical is we employed some individuals onto our groups. So we have 4 men and women that we included to our functions staff.

Ashley:
Wow.

Tony:
So we have been ramping them up in excess of the final couple of months, and it has been like a existence changing practical experience to have some other individuals to manage all the various items of the operational part. We’ve acquired some digital assistants that we hired for the entrance conclusion guest communication, then we employed an operation’s supervisor that manages all those VAs and promotions with the more substantial, a lot more strategic challenges that pop up. So me, Sarah and Omid are slowly but surely having some of our time back again, so that way we’re not so a great deal in the weeds and we can keep on to emphasis on growing the enterprise. Active training persons, but also, we can see the mild at the conclusion of the tunnel that it’s likely to be a person of the finest choices we’ve ever built.

Ashley:
Yeah. I recall Sarah did this Instagram reel wherever you guys went to Disneyland, I imagine. It was like, a working day in the life of an trader at Disneyland, and it’s like, “Oh, obtained to choose care of this simply call. Acquired to shoot this interview information.”

Tony:
Totally. All that was so serious. People today have been inquiring, it is like, “Oh, is that staged, in which you guys…” And I’d be like, “Literally that is the existence that we reside.”

Ashley:
I have been with them areas, and I know it’s actual.

Tony:
Yeah, so excited to commence constructing the staff out so we can develop this into an true company and not just a work for ourselves.

Ashley:
Great. Very well, nowadays we want to discuss about, really, some apps right now that assistance handle your company simpler, far too. We the two established a list of distinctive apps that we use each day for diverse items in our business, and we believed maybe these would assist you guys, be an fascination of you. As authentic estate investors, we’re usually usually on the go and we do not generally have time to sit down, at a personal computer, and pull up application or to go on to our pcs and check out different matters out, so with applications, you do every little thing from your cellular phone.

Ashley:
Some of the apps that I use when I am on the lookout for deals, the first a person, quite apparent, is Zillow or realtor.com. All those applications just to scroll listings. The future is LandGlide, so this is an application that exhibits you parcel information, so you can enter an address, or you can lookup, it’s possible if you are driving all around and you see a property, you can pull it up on the map, see who the proprietor is, the mailing deal with. PropStream is an additional one that is equivalent to that, and then there’s also onX Hunt. This is my favourite one. It is basically a looking application, so you can pull up details about the residence as well, but it also tells you, and LandGlide does this too, as to how a lot of the property of the parcel is maybe forest, how a great deal is area? How a lot is the precise creating? Are there other structures on it? I believe which is seriously great also, especially if you’re wanting for vacant land specials or loads of acreage, you can obtain out what precisely that acreage is composed of.

Ashley:
Then there’s also DealCheck, which is just a way to analyze the residence and will really pull info from the Amalas, such as Zillow, into the calculator for you when you input the tackle. Then there is Homesnap, where by you can truly consider a image of the house, and it will truly pull it up for you, the details on it, so it utilizes your GPS tracking on your mobile phone, so you have to have all those people spot solutions turned on. But these apps also notify you also, the outline, the survey of the home. They are not 100% precise, but if you’re strolling a home, I like to be capable to see in which the precise lines are, in which the property ends and starts. These are my huge types for getting offers.

Ashley:
The following ones that I use are more just to continue to keep my head in position, and the initial one particular is Personal Funds. So this is where by I can website link all of my bank accounts, all of my credit playing cards, even my financial investment accounts, and I can just open up it just about every day and I can see just a small dashboard of what all my balances are on all of them. Then I use Straightforward Calculator, so this is a totally free app with so numerous unique calculators. So I use it to compute fascination only payments. I use it to compute basic principle and curiosity payments to pull up an amortization routine. And then I also, in some cases when I imagine about, “Okay, if I set this much into my kids’ financial savings account, or their expense account,” and I see on typical, it will take 9%, I like to see in 10 decades how much income will young children have in their invested account. So those distinctive calculators I like to use and they arrive helpful. They’re so quick to open up up.

Ashley:
Then the next issue is Google Jobs. So this inbound links with all my other Google goods, so Google Calendar, Google Docs, all these. So Google Responsibilities is just a actually straightforward way to input factors I have to have to do on the go and you can established them so they’re essentially on your calendar to remind you. You just look at it when you are performed and it disappears, but you can generally go back again and glimpse at what you have basically attained for your day.

Ashley:
Then the last app that I’ve applied is Several hours Tracker. And I have employed this two distinct means, so Hours Tracker, I’ve utilised it as time monitoring to see where my time is likely, where by I’ll just log in and log out as to, “Okay, I worked on my company for 3 hrs below, and then I designed lunch for an hour, and then I scrolled social media for an hour,” and it’s like, “Okay, there is the place my time is squandered. There’s wherever my time is successful.” But I’ve also accomplished it to track various tasks. Darrell that I work with, he’s applied this also, is to like, “Okay, he’s functioning on managing this rehab just so we can get an idea as well, of in which his time is really heading.” So I discovered that application, Several hours Tracker, incredibly precious. And individuals are the major applications that I use during the day, moreover my text messages and my mail. Essentially, I don’t even reply to textual content messages, so I would not even include that a single.

Tony:
Properly, Ash, that was like an encyclopedia of real estate investing applications, so it’ll be challenging for me to major that, but I have a couple that I consider are awesome. The first a single that I’ll converse about isn’t even about serious estate investing. It is about written content generation and I’m setting up with this just one 1st due to the fact I think so several folks can reward from sharing their journey about investing on social media and other platforms. One particular of the applications that I was utilizing is known as Splice, so S-P-L-I-C-E, and it is a genuinely simple to use social media editing application, and it will allow you to export in the reels or TikTok sized format. You can incorporate captions and music and all forms of other matters, so it’s a definitely quick way to choose your standard material, spruce it up a very little little bit, so it receives a minor bit additional love on social.

Tony:
The subsequent 1 I use, identical to the Hour Tracker a single, but it is identified as Time, and this a person specifically integrates with QuickBooks, so that’s why I like that a single. My CPA advised it. I was making use of it more so for the real estate expert status, so you have to keep track of your hrs to show how substantially time you are putting into the business enterprise, so we had been applying it for that motive, so time by QuickBooks. MileIQ is one more one particular that I seriously like, so that a person allows you track mileage on your motor vehicles. I can’t don’t forget if that one particular integrates with QuickBooks or not, but QuickBooks has a further version of a mile tracker application which is seriously helpful.

Tony:
The upcoming application that I use is the Schlage app, so at all of our short-term rentals, we have a keyless entry pad and we’re capable to remotely unlock or lock that working with the Schlage application, and then we can also generate, delete and edit unique codes for all of our guests using that app as nicely, so the Schlage application is super beneficial as a limited term rental owner. The up coming application we use for the shorter phrase rentals is the Ring app. The Ring video clip doorbell, they have a entire suite of security units. They also have the Ring floodlight digital camera, which we have at each one 1 of our homes, and that is cool mainly because you can check and see who’s coming in, who’s coming out. If you ever will need to scare someone off of your assets, you can make the alarms go off. We have experienced to do that at the time or 2 times, so the Ring gap is certainly a useful a single.

Tony:
Then the very last one I’ll mention which is productiveness foundation or, possibly not even productiveness based, but the following a single I’ll point out is the Loom cellular application, so if you men really do not know, Loom is a display screen recording web page in which you can go and consider fast screen recordings of what you are accomplishing to give video recommendations to somebody, but they also have a cellular application. I located that to be tremendous beneficial because in some cases we’re out or we’re carrying out stuff on our telephone and you can record a swift Loom on your cellular phone as very well, so which is quite neat.

Tony:
Then the final two I’ll point out, these kinds are strictly efficiency. Initial is monday.com, so we’re major on trying to have venture management program for our enterprise. We used to use Wrike, we have given that switched above to monday.com. There is a small little bit far more customization you can do there, but if we’re ever on the fly, we want to take observe of a thing while we’re on the go, the monday.com application is super helpful.

Tony:
Then the past one is a Miro, so M-I-R-O. Miro is a brainstorming application where you can do… What are these matters called? Minor issue with the… Why cannot I keep in mind what they’re identified as?

Ashley:
Like a-

Tony:
In any case, it’s a brainstorming thing.

Ashley:
An organization chart?

Tony:
Or you can set-

Ashley:
Like a brain dump?

Tony:
Yeah.

Ashley:
Yeah.

Tony:
Or a chart. Yeah, exactly.

Ashley:
Essentially feel of a white board-

Tony:
You fellas know what we’re chatting about, suitable?

Ashley:
… with Post-it notes thrown up all around it.

Tony:
Yeah. It is going to generate me ridiculous that I can not believe of what the heck that diagram with the strains. I never know why I can’t believe of what this is known as.

Ashley:
Yeah. Tony, in fact just obtained me commenced applying that much too, when we began brain dumping strategies for the podcast. I have to say, I truly take pleasure in it much too, due to the fact suitable now, I in fact have this enormous whiteboard sitting in my residing area and I assume that this app is eventually heading to get me absent from whiteboards.

Tony:
The whiteboard? Yeah, it’s a mind map.

Ashley:
Head map.

Tony:
That’s what it is referred to as. A brain map.

Ashley:
Yeah. Ok.

Tony:
Yeah, so you can make intellect maps, move charts, all sorts of other matters and just any brainstorming. For most individuals that are entrepreneurial, they have a thousand concepts a working day, and it’s easy to permit all those ideas slip and you have this wonderful plan and you in no way execute on it because it arrived and then it went, so for me, I adore obtaining the Miro cell application mainly because at any time I have an thought about any component of my business, I open up Miro. We have a board for that precise notion. I drop a little notice on there, that way I can occur again to it later when it’s time to execute, so the Miro app is anything I use actually on a regular basis as effectively. So I believe that is every little thing on my facet Ash. Those are all the massive kinds that we use on a frequent basis.

Ashley:
Yeah. I’m absolutely, fairly positive, I’m heading to change to that Time 1, because I like that it integrates with QuickBooks simply because which is what I use. Then I did not know that Loom experienced an app also, so I’m unquestionably likely to download them.

Tony:
Yeah.

Ashley:
Yeah, so many thanks Tony.

Tony:
There you go.

Ashley:
Thank you men for signing up for us this 7 days for this week’s Rookie Reply. I’m Ashley at Welcome Rentals and he’s Tony at Tony J Robinson on Instagram. We will see you men on Wednesday.