- all you would do is "manage the manager", which you could do from anywhere you have internet access.

Have money, get trained, work with experienced people, join a REIA.

Searching the Internet drive me to this out and chat, but in case it helps someone else, two years ago I start paying $495 a month in a one year subscription net 30 plan.

The key takeaway here is to reach out to your tax professional early in the year and provide them with all the necessary tax information to ensure timely and accurate filing.To answer your question, unless you have the proper knowledge or training to handle your taxes, especially since you have a rental property, it would be advisable to seek out another tax professional instead of filing your taxes yourself.

Or one of the literally thousands of books, videos, etc on this thing called the internet?

They have a hell of an operation, and often hold trainings and hire often also. 

We usually bill our owner's via cash rather than accrual (IE our July owners statement for an owner has their July revenue minus expenses paid in July) but the owners get confused when the cleans don't line up to the stays, so had to train our bookkeeper to include the July cleans on the July statement even though that invoice was paid in August, which is different than how all the non-cleaner invoices are handled.

and be careful putting this out on the internet.. someone turns you in you have no defense as you just admitted to it

Another common thing is families coming for graduations since this is a training base.

And so while this is all personal opinion of some random person on the internet (me), in reality there is not really a financial ROI in doing more than is needed, and unfortunately doing things well.