Hi and a question about markets

[Nathan Greeney]

Just wanted to finally say hi on this forum. I have been a lurker for a bit over a year now and I think I am finally mentally ready to actually start taking some action. 

I think my problem has been too many ideas and not enough of a focus and then add on that I am in the Denver area so prices are not the friendliest.

I have gotten to the point that I am going to start looking out of state for rental worthy single family homes with 2+ bedrooms in the 100-200k price range.

As for where exactly, that is where my question lies. I am looking at Reno, Phoenix, Dallas, and Nashville. The first two because we have parents in both of those locations...so it would be easy to merge visits to the parents with visits to rental properties. But we are not fully sure how much help they would be in terms of knowing the area as both sets of parents seem to have their own strong opinions on how things should be done which do not always line up with what we have researched.

So my questions is, what are peoples opinions of these 4 locations?