It could be business income (Sch C) or short-term capital gain (Form 4797), depending on your involvement and your other business activities.

I’m a college student and I’m very interested in getting involved in real estate while in school because of the long term wealth it can generate.

I have a tax cert that I bought in Scav Sale, I bought and paid all the taxes until 201x, I also paid the taxes for 20(1x+2), but while i was paying the sub-tax for 20(1x+2) installs, I was told that 20(1x+1) has been...

The husband even does small fixes around the house without getting the handyman involved "to save me some money."

.; he provides seller’s reports so I can better analyze the deal; if something looks good, I get my contractor involved and we all talk about it.My agent and I also have an understanding that I need to network with other agents to increase my deal potential, he gets that.

It is also odd that the title co. is involved in modifying the possession date. 

So I say to them, if nothing happened you shouldn't have a problem signing this.So if having to show continuous dates, if that's absolutely necessary, and nothing happened, OP can offer to sign a hold harmless affidavit for the dates involved, and have the policy backdated.

One question I had was what are all the roles/jobs involved in buying and holding a rental property.

You can do the transaction personally, but can't get your 401k involved.

There are a lot of good options out there.For general info, and to semi piggyback on what Chris says-https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2015/12/2...It's an old article, and the markets have changed since then, but the same idea still applies.I've primarily always bought turnkeys and am involved in a lot of markets.