@Ryan DunnOn average about 58 people move to Columbus every day. 

Take a look at BP's blog where new articles are published every day: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog4.

Take a look at BP's blog where new articles are published every day: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog4.

Only issue I see (I am huge into data for my day job so I run numbers on cities on a regular basis) is that there has been population decrease in last 5 years.

I literally pass land everyday that could make a million or more just by building a house on it...

I work with out of state and out of country investors every day.  

The best product someone could use to payoff their mortgage the fastest, while still having the ability to function their everyday life, is a 1st Lien Heloc.

Depreciation is easy to figure, however it took me a while to get the double entries down in the books -- ie accumulated depreciation, cost basis etc.  

How are you going to make sure the contractors are showing up everyday.

While it might be possible to find a local banker willing to work with you, but in my experience over the last 8 years it is much better to work with the expert such as @Kreighton Reed who does it on regular basis.