Novice Looking for a Bit of a Roadmap

[Cole Holloway]

Hey guys and gals. I want to start this post by saying thank you for taking the time to read it (if you do so). I'll try to keep it short and sweet. Over the last few months my wife and I have become incredibly excited about real estate investing and I just recently finished Brandon Turner's book on Rental Property Investing. It was a great read but obviously there's so much more information to gather and acquire that it can be overwhelming. 

My wife and I are considering a move to be in an area more conducive to our future investing so I want to be as prepared and diligent as possible and put us in a great area (right now we're in Denver and while I know that great deals can be found anywhere, it feels like a bit of an uphill battle here). I'm currently finding myself experiencing a bit of analysis paralysis looking over all the information on this site alone. My questions are this:

1) Do you guys have any opinions on how a newbie might tackle all of the information present on the BiggerPockets site (Blog Posts, Forums, Videos, etc.)? Or how you might have approached it in your own past?

2) If you know of any good, data supported articles on some of the best places in the country for real estate investing at the moment (particularly buy and hold/cash flow oriented)?

Thank you all again for any responses and I appreciate your time.