Ideally in the mountain west or pacific northwest.

Ideally, your assignment fee will be at least $5,000 making your de facto hourly rate $192.However, this number assumes a vast array of independent variables, each of which have their own set of independent variables.

Ideally you should have money coming in from RE and some cash reserves set aside before you quit.Good LuckDerek Dombeck

Ideally you should have at least 2 of the 3.Perhaps stay at the job a little longer.

... locate housing as closely as possible to the university (ideal would be no more than 2 miles away, so you can ride bike/bus or walk to school) with 3-4 bedroom with 3+ baths, common area + kitchen (probably need some renovation work which equals sweat equity), get 2-3 roommates and their rent should pay the mortgage ($450 times 2-3 goes a long way toward a mortgage), so you live rent free or as close to free as possible .... think like an engineer, make the numbers work! 

I think a hybrid is ideal - you still want to keep the original docs you have your tenants sign for lease, but at the same time it makes sense to scan them and also store them digitally.  

@Michael Sears Perhaps you could approach it like you would a deal itself - how much are you willing to take/give up, what would your ideal # be and what would your strike # be? 

I look at the CPA relationship as ideally a long term, maybe even lifetime relationship.

But for me personally I probably wouldn't want to do a straight subtraction from my ideal purchase price that I calculated - my estimate of repair costs.  

I think Columbus would be ideal for keeping rental income flowing with all the college students.