When communicating your decision, be clear and respectful, emphasizing that the lease will not be renewed as is since they are not continuing as a couple.

The worst part is No One answer thru emails and phone doesn't work for me (the auto system said my information is incorrect). 

As long you clearly identify and track the expense per property (and you can do that in Quicken, with properties, categories and subcategories, or in Quickbooks), you’ll not need CCs and accounts per properties.Here are some graphical diagrams to help you on this quest (or confuse you further): - Asset Protection Decision Diagram - to help assess the need for asset protection, and what to implement: https://www.biggerpockets.com/files/user/CosIorg/file/asset-protection-decision-diagram - Asset Protection Onion Diagram - what, when, and at what cost one should implement in terms of asset protection - https://www.biggerpockets.com/files/user/CosIorg/file/asset-protection-onion-diagram-v2 - What is needed for complete asset protection OR the domains that need to be intersected to find asset protection

I would say this, if you wanted to find cheaper tax preparation you 100% could but it might cost you more in the form of incorrect tax returns or inflated amounts of tax due.

Do you have any partners or other decision makers in this endeavor?

Since I'm not familiar with the area, looking for any info that will help me make the decision to purchase or not.

See what you're comfortable with and then you just gotta commit to narrowing yourself to 1 or 2 markets or you'll be in decision paralysis forever!

That’s said I have taken a loan from vanguard on my 401k and it was the best decision I’ve ever made.

So you stating that I was getting a good amount of quality leads is incorrect.

Generally, I find that anyone spending a ton of time on one property decisions are not usually worth the time, but you are smart be seeking guidance.