Do one task at a time in each app to compare apples to apples.Load a property with pictures and details.Market that property.See what your marketing looks like from the public's perspective.Submit a fake application to see how easy the process is.

Many people don't make a profit, obviously odds of success get better with experience/good team, etc.consider until you have more time to commit to instead look at buying publicly traded equity REITs, not mortgage REITS, they are trickyget subscription to Seeking Alpha and follow Brad Thomas, Jussi Askola and many others research/writing to start withREITS have beaten the SP500 last 50 yrs, by a lot, 13% to 11% just in last 20 yrs too, and they have taken a temporary beating due to sudden rise in 10 yr rates and hence CAP rates, but their underlying rent roles have only gone up.

I am an accountant and find a public and private have benefits to learning the back end of real estate.

This is exactly the type of public/private partnership our team is working to build across the country.

I spent the majority of that time traveling the country for small public company that had a niche in acquiring owner financed land notes.  

Decent schools and great public transportation.

@Chris Combado, Publication 523 from the IRS lays out the requirements to extend that window for selling your primary residence. 

Amidst a significant downturn in commercial property values, private investors (particularly high-net-worth individuals and family offices) are seizing the opportunity emerging as the dominant force accounting for 6...

@Jay Hinrichs Lots of publicly traded builders put homes right on landfills.

If I choose no, it says "Since you didn't try to rent the property at all in 2023, it's not considered a rental" and to delete the property from my return.From what I can find, IRS Publication 527 does not mention advertising/trying to rent the property as a requirement.