This is a critical question to get answered right away.

Becoming job optional with "passive" income as soon as possible (~10 years) being the ultimate goal (i.e. property management company employed to run the assets, but as we haven't started yet we're keeping an open mind and this is why having a CFP who has real estate investments themselves is critical).

Understanding value is critical and then you can find out what you will pay based on the profit you are looking for.

The Due Diligence period will be critical in evaluating the major systems and understanding if any of those would be required to be updated or not. 

First up - Principal - Interest - Taxes and Insurance (PITI) is your critical factor.

First let me start by apologizing if I leave out any critical info. 

I am doing some research for a research project on the criticality of the time component to the success of rental real estate investing and I would love to get your inputs to create the data set. 

Management, is critical, your patience for insanity also matters.

I manage on my own but if I choose to have a PM then I will stay out of all business of communicating with tenants unless something is extremely critical.

Truth: It’s critical to have, especially Medical.