Nate: Welcome to the Utah market. You're on the right track. Provo is home to 2 Universities and Salt Lake City is rated as one of the nations top business friendly cities.
A lot of the growth in the state is happening in what's considered the Silicon Slopes. Companies such as Adobe, Snapchat, Amazon and Vivant just to name a few have established offices here.
Just to give you an idea on price and returns in Provo we just sold a 4-plex that closed on 11/30/17 for $597,000 with a 6.3% cap rate. Also another 4-plex we just put under contract yesterday for $550,000 with a 6.3% cap.
Benefit of Provo is not a lot of vacancies but also lower rental rates then Salt Lake City. Provo is a much more concentrated where Salt Lake is more spread out.
I see a huge market in the Silicon Slopes area of Lehi and Draper but there are not a lot of existing Multi-family.
Hope that helps. Let me know if I can help I'm a licensed Real Estate agent/Investor so I'm familiar with what you're after.
Thanks,
--Adam Harward