Narrow your choices that way.  

It's good that your narrowed down your focus and now you need to narrow down your market.You've already had some great advice on this thread but before you get lost in the "weeds" and all the details, which isn't bad, I would suggest you attend some local REI meetups in your area.

I drove around today and narrowed down some low rises. 

Im just trying to nail done about 3 states that would be great potential and then narrow down to the zip codes. 

Hope that narrows it 👇 a bit.

My daughter has one semester left before graduating college at the University of Arkansas.I spent much of my time raising my daughter because of my flexible schedule including softball, gymnastics, junior and high school band, daycare place, and piano lessons just to name a few. 

I have narrowed my search down to Pensco SunWest and Strata.

The lower price point house is hard to disqualify FHA financing since it will narrow the buyer pool to much.

Plus home prices are of even more narrow use in determining what happens on a macro economic scale since they serve as limited lagging indicator and much better ones exist, like new housing starts, lumber prices, foreclosure rate..

I narrowed down Memphis and Orlando market and started connecting with real estate agents through zillow, texted them, called them.