Jobs also stable but no big influx or big decrease - I'd like to know why everyone seems very bullish on the area given it's relatively high crime etc.Any local knowledge or insights would be great. 

Whether you pay yourself from the LLC, increasing your income and lowering your LLC profit or not pay yourself, decreasing your income and increase the profit of the LLC, it will all flow through to your taxes as income either way.For sure don't pay yourself if the payment would put the LLC into negative profit or would leave less profit that you have in depreciation expense. 

The prices look pretty good from afar, and the other demographics look pretty solid (job growth, population growth, crime decrease, etc) Is anyone out there buying and holding in Columbus??

Insurance, realistic vacancy, cap ex, maintenance, management, hoa fees (x1.3), taxes (x1.2), expense inflation, decrease in noi if market gets saturated etc etc?

Decreasing crime indexLike I said there are a bunch of other criteria you can and should look at depending on your strategy.

Pay off debt to decrease the $1128 and add it to my investments at the new year.

I guess that's what separates the wise investors from the novices - knowing when increase/decrease your growth mode.

Rehab costs are rolled into my loan (don’t need to seek financing elsewhere)Holding costs are decreased as its interest only during the rehabOnce the rehab is completed, instead of staying with the commercial loan, I refinance the rehabbed property with the conventional loan (as I still owner-occupy) which will Lock me into a lower -fixed interest rateAmortize the loan over 30 yearsCash flow…BOOM!!

I own 1 condo, which I bought with plan to turn it into rental later and buy another one to live in.I recently changed jobs and now I'm looking to move closer to work, in order to decrease my commute from 1h to 10-20mins.

You have only dropped the price 1%-2%; try dropping it a couple hundred dollars or decrease the move in expenses.