I'm not sure if we can like to articles on our own websites here, so to be safe I'll just suggest the IRS web page, which does do a pretty good job of explaining the basics: https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc510The main thing to know if you're going to claim business miles is that you do need to keep a log of every business trip. 

We looker at few houses/Condo under $200k-$250k and saw few online in that range.

The number of people who have called many of us saying they saw some article online or watched some tickytok video and did something COMPELTELY wrong is staggering.  

You can also check their reviews online at Google, Facebook, or Yelp.

I've seen a lot of bad excel templates online...

Now when your agent actually does the release then they send it to the listing agent and its is the listing agents responsibility to forward that doc to the sellers we do this all the time via docu sign or hello sign or whatever on line document system the local MLS uses.. somehow you seem to have this backwards..

I didn’t know anyone in Alabama, so I called a few agents I found online and ended up picking one from BiggerPockets.

Just to be safe if you had to pivot.

I think I've talked to maybe 2 tenants on the phone so far, and I didn't mind because there's a lot of scams online.

Most are online, at civicsource.com  and happen once a month.