@Ana Brasher,There is no official declaration or form that is required by the IRS or your state Department of Revenue when you start using the vacation property as a rental. 

I am a 27 year old, born and raised in the metro Detroit area of Michigan, a former collegiate gymnast at EMU and Pitt, a current Manager of a CS team at a highly functional Sports Tech company, AND (most importantly) I am officially a new homeowner as of today!

I'm officially a landlord.

First official post to the forum; my name is Brendan and I live in Southern Ohio!

How loan officiers can pay Referral Fee to realtors in a legal way, and NOT as kick back?

However, two things that are a big unknown and was wondering if this would automatically disqualify me... 1) I had a foreclosure on a condo that finalized in Feb 2019, so more than 5 years ago. 2) I work for myself and been doing this officially for 1 year only (prior to that I had a high W2 job).

My official representative was Robert Moran, and he has not returned an email to me in over a month.

If an expert doesn’t weigh in and you aren’t excited about paying someone else to list it I would certainly get an official opinion by your CPA but even that isn’t a guarantee.

If you invest in an area with local officials who think criminals are victims of society, you can't expect much help from the government.

Just pulling something from the internet (don't trust everything you see so take this with a grain of salt I'm not a lawyer): "If the building in question isn't officially designated as an SRO or hotel, it is illegal for landlords to rent individual rooms to tenants for a number of reasons, including that it could allow landlords to evade the maximum rent permitted by the Rent Stabilization Law and Code."