Chris is telling you to provide more details.The people on this thread have a combined hundred years of experience, conflicting opinions, and have been real with you.

- question: so NO real estate agent in this piece?

Quote from @Travis Tamillo: Hello all, Im about to retire from the Navy and am super excited about becoming a Real Estate Agent.

As far as rate is concerned, you can usually go about two points over the current rate (less closing costs for a seller financed deal so there is no real expense there) You need to make sure the borrower can cover that.

At this stage, the main thing we need is for me to get back into the workforce and get some money coming in, in order to achieve that dream.With that in mind, my immediate goal is to gain employment in the field of property management, as opposed to wasting my time working in another field that is not associated with real estate.

There are conventional strategies and unconventional strategies to get started in real estate. 

Maybe, but so far the reports are about neighborhoods where people have real money.

Hello all,Has anyone sold a short term rental owned over a year  as a non real estate professional that qualified as short term capital gains tax deductions with expenses and depreciation?

I recommend you read "Long-Distance Real Estate Investing" by David Greene.

Regardless, it shoukd be a lot less expensive than a real staging.