Give me a quick pitch and my brain can do some quick processing and decision-making.  

We first went with sell and put the house on the market in the first week of August 2021. wo major factors contributed to our decision; COVID inflated values by crazy margins and our contractor offered to foot 12k of the repairs to make the property sell ready if we use his GF as realtor.

Thank you @Mike D'Arrigo, this was a difficult decision on my end but I ended up taking a position with a mortgage banker.

I'm not sure I could have pushed through the fear of such a huge financial decision if I wasn't working with a realtor that I knew and trusted.

At this point, our decision has been to issue a Non-renewal of lease notice with the idea to renovate and flip it.

If you aren’t comfortable making those decisions, then being a rental property owner may not be the right choice.

They are trying to protect people from bad decisions.

I find myself second-guessing my decisions/strategy/reasoning. 

I second the suggestion to work with a knowledgable CPA or investment advisor when making these decisions. 

Even then, I think everyone starts somewhere, and I’m confident that I would make mostly correct decisions when I do decide to make a purchase.