Dora, Eustis,  and Tavares and from what I can tell the cost to purchase properties out there compared to the Orlando area are way lower than that same comparable rent decrease.

The reason i went the route to find an agent to find a deal was to decrease some of the stress of doing it on my own but i feel like if i did not have a buyers agent, I would have done this deal better.

Exceptions would be if you have a strong strategy planned for how to increase your income or decrease your expenses. 

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.