How Do You Pick A Market To Invest In?

[Ryan Huddleston]

I would like to start investing out of state. I live in Charleston WV, which is OK but the economy is very slow. I would like to identify some good rental markets to invest in but I am having trouble finding a good method to identify markets. Columbus and Cleveland look interesting. This is new to me and scares me, but I really want to tackle this fear and become comfortable with  investing out of state. 

How do you Identify good rental markets?

How much vetting of the neighborhood do you do?