It is ideal to stay in LA as I am fairly handy and can fix a lot of things in the beginning or at least be present to make sure I don't get taken advantage of as it can easily happen if you don't have an amazing team formed out of city or state.

Its ideal if they work with investors, because they often have introductions to contractors they can make.

The cash flow won't be amazing but if you can add value over the first couple years and get rents up. that would be ideal.

Ideally, I’d like to extend the property line to the house I live in over 2 feet (where the other house is currently standing).

I own STR's myself as an investor, and I'm a buyers agent helping other investor find their ideal STR or long term investment property. 

Ideally, I'd like to continue investing in that market and have a mix of LTR and MTR.

Our company routinely sets up 1031 exchanges on 24 hours' notice or less (it's not ideal, but it happens!).

I found out that this was actually not an ideal location, and it has been impossible to rent. 

A software solution would be ideal, but insurance policies don’t seem to be consistently listed anywhere.

Start buying warranties so you don't have To deal with the headache. add 0.5% to the purchase price, make it part of your sales process. hedges and shifts the risk. you can get 10 year builder policies underwritten and approved. that's how we do it. anything we can do to lower the risk for ourselves is ideal.