The situation as I see it goes like this: I offer a way for a client to purchase a home and education/information on how that can happen for them (fixing credit, saving money, etc) and they are successful and in the end own their home...... or.... they do not follow the suggested path and they lose yet even more money. 

I would never advise any of my CPA clients to put rental properties inside an IRA. 

I have managed 200+ units at once and can tell you that starting out you should focus on setting up your processes contracts and such, then scale to larger properties.For our clients that manage themselves we try to set them up with as much of the infrastructure as possible so that they have a head start and can just worry about the normal tenant issues.

Cosmo, I have a client who owns about 20 or so units in Fort Wayne.

Since you don't have the unit in an LLC, I, as a business adviser, would recommend to a client in the same circumstance to charge themselves the rent, and to TRANSFER THE FUNDS TO THE APPROPRIATE ACCOUNT.

In addition to Jame's list, I'd recommend you ask about the following when you're looking at TK:References: Ask for references from long-term and repeat clients, and then actually call them.

Right through to actually stealing clients money.  

Many of my clients live or work in NYC and choose to invest here in Pennsylvania.

We do that for some of our clients that look at way more properties than they undertake.

I would say your major challenge right now is being able to find someone who has enough free time during busy season to start that conversation with you and onboard you as a new client.