You'd learn and potentially earn a profit at exit.Another way is to wholesale the land.

It seems there’s a common misconception largely influenced by social media, online courses, and influencers who oversimplify the process that real estate is an easy, passive way to generate income with minimal effort.

In its first year, the rental only earned enough to cover half the mortgage.

Joining local meetups and online investor groups can also help you make valuable connections and find the right opportunities.Good luck!

If it's posted in Florida MLS, it's available in all online sites and people who are looking to buy property in your area can find your listings. 

This is the max that Sec8 will pay for any property and is the information that you can find online.  

Part of those cuts included the short-term rental tax loophole, a strategy real estate investors can use to help mitigate their rental income tax by offsetting earned income with real estate losses, and could be renewed or extended.  

Go to Etsy and search for "rental property tracker," and you will find hundreds of nice spreadsheets to track 10-20 rentals, usually for under $10.Software has extremely helpful features like online payments, marketing syndication (click a button, and your property is advertised on multiple sites), electronic document review/signing, maintenance tracking, and owner reports.

With the internet, there aren't really do overs -- most websites have other websites that grab (legally or illegally) information . . . it is pretty impossible to make anything disappear once you put it online.

My advise is to look at property online and see if you can talk with an agent first to see what the rules are for that state.