Or we print xxxxx dollars to cover our interest and debt payments.  

If your realtor is listing it for free and not helping, that's not much help since leaving you to screen tenants and run through leads is like asking you to perform knee surgery, you don't know what you are doing.All rental listings should get bombarded on Zillow Rental Manager and HotPads, etc in the first week so if you have limited activity, your price is either too high or the photos are bad and the copy about the place is bad.Use something like RentSpree from screening.

If you don't report the income, it could lead to an audit. 

What you have described sounds like a real estate  race to the bottom and you will be in the lead .

Fewer than 20 have signed up.You can lead a horse to water...

All my peers and clients who previously bought tax sale properties moved away from the strategy a number of years ago so I don't have any recent experiences to go off of,  but wouldn't be surprised if the lead time is longer this time of year due to the holidays. 

This is sales and marketing.. no one leads with Nope we have not paid as agreed..

In case you have not noticed, our national debt is already out of control, and there're legal limits on additional borrowing.The government has a third option: print more money.

I wanted to build up his team, I wanted to help bring him work, I wanted to help in sales and lead generating and buy into his companies LLC.. but even that was fraudulently represented as  In the beginning he had represented himself as someone who had a team in house around 60 people, with vehicles, trailers, tools, lawnmowers, weed wackers, nail guns.. the works.

The obvious answer here is to somehow get some income and start paying down the credit card debt.