You will devote every free minute to learning, to developing relational capital and to removing the barriers that are often put in place by long-time friends, co-workers and even family.

Could be longer obviously, depending on how busy you are/how much time you devote to this.

That being said, it could be a great side hustle if you are able to devote the time to it.

If you learn better by being in a classroom devoted to what you are learning, I would go that route.

I need to be semi/mostly passive due to still working and not being able to devote full time to this but want to have an active hand in some of it so I understand all the moving parts and how to accomplish them.

Say, if the GC usually charges $50/hour for his or her own time and has a standard 15% mark-up on the invoiced charges for labor and materials a fair exchange may be (1) x number of personal hours devoted to the project at no charge to the partnership per week and (2) reduction in mark-up from 15% to 7.5% in exchange for (3) y percentage of profit.   

So I’m thinking seeing your post is a sign that I should just devote my time to real estate and get into commercial.

You can make more money with a STR but there is more work involved.I think the answer to the question is what is your hourly rate with your W-2 job / business and what would the hourly rate be with your increase in airbnb income.Does it make sense to devote time to the airbnb when you can make pick up some over-time hours or moonlight some hours.

I think plugging information without analyzing or thinking of what is being done would take 4 hours or even less.However, when I work with clients, I normally try to see if the information that they provided to me makes sense and ask questoins to the client if any.For example, if I don't see mortgage interest, taxes or insurance on a profit and loss statement, its an automatic prompt for me to ask the client a question.Also, be mindful that there is more time devoted to a client than just completing a return.There is sending the welcome email, gathering and organizing information, one person prepares the return, one person reviews the return, requesting e-file authorization forms, submitting the return, letting the client know that the return has been submitted.In the event that you decide to do the return, look over the past 3 years worth of returns to see if they were done accurately.

That said, the amount of ink devoted to real estate is scant compared to the amount of ink compared to stocks, bonds, insurance, etc.