You need to decide if you want to learn to do your own taxes (which is a positive thing to learn) or if it would be better to pay the couple hundred dollars and have someone else do it - and focus your efforts on learning something else investing specific.For me personally, I appreciated doing my own taxes for a handful of years until it started getting complicated enough that I decided that someone else could do it better than me. 

Depending on the type of transaction will decide which form you use.  

Then I would give the down payment back to my investor plus the interest rate we decide on.

Thus, I decided that rather than removing it when it's still in good shape, another viable option I was going to go with was to fortify it with asbestos binding paint. 

ou could do all the work to turn some one else property into an STR and then they could decide to sell or just take over listing on Airbnb.

So I have decided that I want to invest in real estate.

Then decide what you want to do long term.

Hi Jaysen, thanks for your feedback.I actually live close to this property and will likely self-manage, but I just put in 8% there in case I ever decided I don't want to manage it myself anymore.

No matter what you decide, remember a couple of things.- If you had to, could you pay the mortgage by yourself?

But it isn't necessarily that hard to be successful either if you are willing to do the work.If you really can't decide where to start, my recommendation is driving for dollars.