After that's under control, focus on increasing income through additional work at your current job, taking on a side hustle, or finding ways to increase income on your existing rental.At the same time, educate yourself.

I hate to say this, but if you want to get a job with Yardi as the main software, you will need to start at the entry-level accounting.

If you wanted to earn $200k to live on at a W2 job....you'd need to earn significantly more because you'd have to pay income taxes, and payroll taxes on the income; where as taking on debt isn't taxable at all. 

Also, co-living situations or top performing short-term rentals can produce a pretty high cash on cash return but again they are pretty active with a high turnover of tenants and guests unless you find someone else to manage them and then you are usually paying a good portion of the profits to the manager.But let's say that you have a job and are not interested in fixing and flipping or a high turnover type of investment and you would rather be a more passive investor.

Once an isdue is resolved, another one ruses…it seems a landlord’s job is never done.

While I do believe that some of the posters on BP are able to do a quality job self managing their portfolio of STR properties, they are spending a lot more time doing it than they’d like to admit.10 years ago in many markets STR provided outsized returns.  

.- If you hold a rental until death, you can pass it on with a stepped-up cost basis, limiting captial gains if then sold (limited by inheritance tax limitations).Too many newbies on this site trying to replace their day job income via "passive" real estate investing w/o digging deep enough to understand how it really works.

They are investing in infrastructure, housing, public safety and taking the steps they need to take to attract more jobs. 

However, there aren't enough moderators to do the job against technology and spammers now.

An accountant is a general job title that may potentially do one of many different tasks(bookkeeping, reviewing financials, assurance, taxation, etc)Bookkeepers are specific that they will likely only do the bookkeeping.