Flesh out what you are trying to accomplish and mention salient elements that would support your "ask".Does that make sense?

You mention you could put 2-3 mobile homes on the property.

@Justin Segarrayou got great responses about screening so i want to respond to something else you posted"fear is not being able to find good tenants in a reasonable time frame"homeownership and investing is a very, very long term play and it is absolutely worth it to WAIT for good tenants. 

If you want to buy real estate and wait, this could crush, especially with the new ADU laws in effect in San Diego which could help if you have any extra room on the lot at all.

As the others mentioned you definitely need to screen tenants before you rent to them.

If I choose no, it says "Since you didn't try to rent the property at all in 2023, it's not considered a rental" and to delete the property from my return.From what I can find, IRS Publication 527 does not mention advertising/trying to rent the property as a requirement.

While I wait for my Tax lady to respond to my email I wanted to post my question in the BP forums to see if I'm thinking things through correctly. 

Ex: Real Estate Rookie e-book, I candownload Rookie Forms from the Book, but I get that error I mentioned whentrying to download the Readiness Checklist and the Templates and Worksheets.This same thing happens on all of my books....about 10 of them.

The Lubbock market is a little slow right now due to overbuilding of new multifamily so you want to make sure that you buy in desirable areas or you may be waiting a long time to get your property rented (or worse, get bad tenants).

Sometimes the @ mention does not work as it should.