I believe the ideal structure is to put each property in its own LLC to "limit" the liability and what someone can go after in a lawsuit. 

As a recent Kennesaw State grad, it seemed like the ideal situation for student housing.

Your expenses from renting it out are most likely going to be greater than 300 dollars, so you would be taking a loss, which is obviously not ideal.

Well I am. it would be ideal if I could score a salary job where I can both!

Moving on, my Real Estate goals are as follows:Short-term: Get real estate license, and then hired into a PM firm so as to acquire practical experience as to how managing is done properly, as well as finding tenants, making deals, etc.Acquire first multi-family property, ideally a four-plex/4-unit apt.Gain experience in other types of Real Estate deals such as wholesaling and flipping to see if I take an interest in them, or am particularly good at conducting those operations.Long-term:Own and rent 1,000,000 commercial/residential multi family units.Have my own PM company for my properties, and perhaps others properties as well.I found Bigger Pockets through my real estate studies and discovering the BP podcast, and figured joining this forum is an excellent step in my real estate campaign.

To answer some of your questions:1) I would be investing for rentals with a focus on cash-flow2) Location would preferably be NZ, however if there are other countries with the right opportunities I would look there also. 3) Ideally looking for property less than 300k USD.

Ideally, we'll rent it to a few young professionals or artists, but don't know how picky we can be just yet. 

Ideally what I would like to do with this deal is find someone that would lend me the $120,000 I need to purchase the place.

Ideally, I want to ramp up quickly, but in a calculated manner.

This house we ideally would like to stay in until we pay off the majority of her loans.