Can Follow Up Boss handle investor clients?

For the relationship, yes: contacts, custom fields, Smart Lists, texting and automations on every plan. What it doesn't hold is the investment side. Listing alerts come from a connected IDX site, and the documented ones filter on location, price, beds, baths and square footage rather than on rent or cap rate.

Can a CRM track a 1031 exchange?

Any CRM with custom date fields can store the two deadlines: 45 days to identify replacement property, and 180 days to close or the due date of that year's tax return if it comes first, both counted from the sale of the relinquished property. This is general information, not tax advice; confirm the rules with a qualified intermediary and a tax adviser.

Is REsimpli a CRM for agents?

Not for agents serving buyers. REsimpli is built for wholesalers and flippers generating their own seller leads, with list stacking, skip tracing and a dialer. An agent whose investors buy on the market is working the other side of that trade.

Do I need an IDX website to work with investors?

Only if your leads come from search on your own site. Most investor clients arrive by referral or from a deal you sent them, and what keeps them is whether the numbers you send hold up.

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What will it rent for? What’s the cap rate at asking? When does my identification window close? Investor clients ask all three before they ask about the kitchen, and most real estate CRMs were designed around the kitchen.

Disclosure: we make CapScout, one of the eight tools compared here. Prices come from each vendor’s own page where one exists, and third-party figures are labelled.

The shortlist

Tool	Built for	Listing alerts filter on	Dialer and texting	Pricing (Sept 2026)
Follow Up Boss	Lead routing and speed to lead for teams	Via a connected IDX site: location, price, beds, baths, size	Texting on every plan; calling an add-on on Grow	Grow $58·user·mo annual, $69 monthly
Lofty	IDX site, CRM and AI assistants in one	Each lead’s search preferences and behavior	Yes, via paid call and text packages	Not published; third-party listings from ~$449·mo
Real Geeks	IDX site and CRM bundle	Location, price, beds, baths, features, drawn areas	Included	$399·mo plus $500 setup, 2 users
BoldTrail	CRM, IDX and marketing, agents to brokerages	MLS fields down to year built and keywords	Built-in dialer, power dialer and texting	Not published; third-party ~$499–$999·mo for 5–10 agents
Wise Agent	Low-cost CRM with transaction management	Alerts via its IDX websites; criteria not documented	Texting a paid add-on	$42·mo annual, $49 monthly, 5 users
Zoho CRM	General-purpose CRM you configure yourself	None built in	Via other Zoho apps and integrations	Free for 3 users; $14–$52·user·mo annual
REsimpli	Wholesalers and flippers finding sellers	Seller lead lists, not listings	Dialer included	Solo $249·mo, Team $699 for 5 users (annual)
CapScout	Agent teams whose clients are investors	Return criteria (cap rate, rent-to-price, ARV) plus the usual fields	No dialer; calls and texts from your phone, logged	Team $129·mo for 3 seats, $39·extra seat

What changes when the client is an investor?

The buy box is about returns. An investor’s brief reads “a duplex under $400k that clears a 7% cap”. Every alert system we could document filters on MLS fields: price, beds, square footage, location. None of the vendors in this list shows rent, cap rate or ARV as an alert criterion on its public pages as of September 2026, so the return math still happens after the alert, by hand.

Deadlines come from outside the deal. A 1031 exchange gives the client 45 days from their sale to identify replacements and 180 to close, sooner if their tax return falls due first. An inspection period and a financing contingency land in the middle of that. A general CRM can hold these as custom dates, and someone has to set every reminder.

An investor who buys one door usually wants the next, and a CRM that files them as closed stops looking just as the refinance window and the first lease end come round.

Follow Up Boss, for teams that live on lead volume

If your team’s constraint is answering more leads faster than the team down the street, start here. Every lead source lands in one place and routes fast. Smart Lists and automations run the follow-up, texting is on every plan, and the Grow plan carries 200-plus integrations.

Grow is $69 a user a month, $58 billed annually, with calling a $33 to $39 add-on. Pro is $499 a month for ten users. Listing alerts come from IDX partners rather than from Follow Up Boss itself, and they filter on the MLS fields above.

Lofty, Real Geeks and BoldTrail: the website and the CRM on one bill

Lofty bundles an IDX site, the CRM, flow-based Smart Plans and a set of AI assistants, with listing alerts driven by each lead’s search preferences and behavior. Calling and texting come as paid packages. It doesn’t publish prices; third-party listings put it from about $449 a month plus setup.

Real Geeks is the most transparent of the three: $399 a month plus a $500 setup fee, two users included, and $25 a user for users three to ten. Calling and texting are included. Saved searches can use a drawn boundary, which suits an investor who only buys inside one school zone.

BoldTrail, formerly kvCORE, has the most detailed alert filters we found, down to year built and MLS keywords, plus a built-in power dialer. It publishes no pricing; third-party estimates run $499 to $999 a month for five to ten agents.

The bundle is worth it only when most of your leads come from search on your own site.

Wise Agent and Zoho CRM, when the budget is fixed

Wise Agent covers contacts, drip campaigns and transaction management for $49 a month, or $42 billed annually, with five team members included. Texting is a paid add-on.

Zoho CRM is general-purpose, with a free edition for up to three users and paid seats from $14 a user a month on Standard, billed annually. It knows nothing about real estate until you build the fields and modules, which is also why a team with an admin who likes configuring can make it fit almost anything. Both are right when someone on the team will own the setup.

REsimpli: an investor CRM for the seller side

REsimpli calls itself the #1 AI-powered CRM for real estate investors, and for wholesalers and flippers generating their own seller leads it earns the pitch: driving for dollars, list stacking, skip tracing, a triple-line dialer. Solo is $249 a month and Team $699 for five users, both billed annually.

An agent whose clients buy listed property is on the buying side of the market, where none of that applies.

CapScout, when clients buy on returns

CapScout sets a client’s buy box on return criteria: minimum cap rate, rent-to-price, ARV ratio for a flip. New listings that clear it land on the agent’s list to review and send. The client gets a branded underwrite in a deal room, and you see which reports they opened.

The client record holds strategy, financing and markets. Contract dates and both 1031 deadlines each set a follow-up, and a closed deal becomes an owned door with refinance, anniversary and lease-end reminders. ScoutSense writes call briefs and drafts, included in the seat.

Where the others beat it: no IDX website, no lead generation, no dialer, no drip campaigns. A team already running its book in Zoho CRM can keep it; CapScout brings the Zoho contacts in and writes their CapScout activity back to Zoho as notes. Other tools connect through Zapier, webhooks and an API.

One CRM or two?

Plenty of investor-agent teams run a lead CRM and an investment tool side by side. It works.

Count where your team’s hours go. A week spent chasing new leads is what a lead CRM is priced for. A week spent answering “does this one pencil?” for clients who already trust you is a different job. Whatever you buy is paid for every agent you hire, including the new one who hasn’t closed anything yet.

Prices checked on each vendor’s own page on September 19, 2026. Lofty and BoldTrail don’t publish pricing, so their figures are third-party. Features change often; check current terms before you buy.

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