Your time is best spent producing the revenue that allows you to invest in the first place.That includes using local agents you meet and feel are a good fit for you, property managers, possibly buying completed properties like the one you posted here, and outsourcing as much of the process as you can as you get started. 

Virtually all large cap ex items have a life time beyond 8 years.   

@Brandon MorganI self manage my 29 SFR and run into this all the time.

As titled, I am looking to finally step out of my comfort zone and buy my first property.

I have been in real estate full time since 2012, started investing in Sober Living homes in 2019 and we now have 62 of them across 14 different states.

There is a lot to consider before you buy your first property.  

I'm a first time landlord and my first tenant moves in in 2 weeks.

You can create a trust to pay you out $5000 a month for a 39 month period of time.

I've read the qualifying criteria multiple times and have already notified my CPA who has done it multiple times for their clients previously.

Obviously, this is what you hoped to avoid in the first place by keeping the troublemaker.