Good writing, lack of knowledge on the historical context of the industry (outside of statistics).

A final choice would be to rent the primary in a few months, reside in a rental for several years, sell the primary, and purchase another SFH for rental and a SFH residence as a new primary.Is this a viable place to begin investing?

Moot point then.But in response to your original question, no, I would not even consider climate in my choices for where to buy rentals or investment properties.

(Source: Gordon James Realty https://www.gordonjamesrealty.com/resources/knowledge-hub/be...)2.Tax Benefits: Leasing to your LLC allows you to charge rent, creating deductible business expenses.

Saving, buying, and investing are pretty difficult on a teacher's salary, so I'm hoping to learn from the wealth of knowledge here.

Hi, Everyone,
My name is Marc Bowman and I work with a short term vacation rental software company. Before coming to BrightSide, I was the manager of a successful home inspection company based in Knoxville, Tennessee...

Going turnkey is a smart choice given your time constraints, just make sure you have a property management in place to handle the proeprties for you. 

I hope this will only increase my amount of knowledge and networking.

To my knowledge there isn’t a BP page for Columbus overall; you need to do your own research or use the resources of motivated investor-friendly realtors like ReafCo.

I am definitely happy I at least got started in my real estate investing journey and am taking away knowledge I would have not had if I just stumbled with the what-ifs.