Proper identification of tenants isalso needed if you want any chance of having local code enforcement write tickets against the tenant and not the owner.5.

Please get educated before you start writing checks.What concerns me is you started this post by talking about how you are jobless.  

I hope it's just really bad investor relationship, but I'm writing off this investment at this point. 

There were a few slight distractions like figuring out financing, selling a neighboring lot (that I had also acquired via letter writing) on Craigslist, rent out my RV, rent out my house, make my first ever documentary film (a twenty minute short called Kara, Star Of The World about a woman with a traumatic brain injury from a childhood ski accident), take any photo and video work I could get, start a 360 photography company, create social media channels to hype the build, parent two small kids, do a beautiful and excruciating tandem mountain bike ride across Scotland, drive my family on RV trips to Colorado/Arizona/Utah/Nevada/California/Wisconsin/Minnesota/Michigan/Florida, attempt to write a novel and adopt a puppy.The above may read as humble brag, it is not.

I could literally write hundreds of questions you should be asking yourself.

In order to use these forms you will need to hire a Realtor for a Lease up or as a property manager, but should cost less than hiring an attorney to write your own forms. 

How does it work with taxes and write offs?  

Hi BP!  I am a real estate broker and also owner of my own rental properties.  I recently invested in a multifamily syndication and received a K1.  My CPA has instructed me that the depreciation I take from that parti...

Check with the Insurance company that writes the rental first2.

In addition to the returns, I get to enjoy writing off all my (and family) trips as work expenses as well.