Turnkey Real Estate Research question.

[Kenneth Lowry]

I want to begin my REI with out of state turnkey real estate. It seems like the best fit for me. From what I have been learning about it, the important things to research are the turnkey companies themselves and the areas to invest, both at the city level (because you want a city with growing employment potential among other things) and at the neighborhood level (because you don't want a high crime rate area, etc). My question is, what are the best sources of information for each of theses? I imagine the area research would be some type of internet information but I also imagine the research on the turnkey companies will not be so straight forward.