Check out my personal favorite, Set For Life by Scott Trench , or The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey.3.

The Dominican Republic can be a great place to invest but, personally, Punta Cana would be the last place I'd invest in.Two years ago, during a meeting I had at the Ministry of Tourism in Santo Domingo, one of the head honchos there clearly told me "If I were you, I wouldn't invest in Punta Cana".

Rentredi is also a popular one (paid service) but I can't give my personal experience on that.

The property has been reported on the deceased's personal tax return. 

I'd always recommend flying out to where you plan to invest to get a feel for the market and to meet your team in person.

I would find real estate investing meetups in your area right away so you can network, in person, with other people to hear about how they handled their first landlording experience.

Maybe take a KPI online test, it will show the personality traits that are success indicators.

The mortgage is likely also personally guaranteed by current owners.

Some takeaways from him:Treasury Regulations section 1.280A-2(i)(3) gives a couple of ways you can proportion the rental portion of a property--my accountant used square footage.Under section 280A of the tax code, common areas that you also use are considered part of your personal space and unfortunately aren’t counted as part of the rental space in the proportion calculation.

If the land is separate from the mobile homes, you may be able to see what the county assesses the homes if personal property.