We currently live in the Riverside neighborhood, and may consider investing here, due to the high percentage of multifamily homes and the fact that we pay Columbus taxes but go to Dublin schools.

Good schools, close proximity to T.

This is a college town, as well, with some 30,000 students attending the University of Kentucky and thousands more attending smaller schools.

I was working as a middle school science teacher for 2 years but have shifted to doing real estate full-time.

Depends the the price range but it starts to slow down after school starts because people don't want to move their children after school starts.  

Let me first start off by saying my oldest child is 3.5 years old so I know things will change many times before she sets off to college.That said, after reading an article about the uses of a 529 plan, it mentions that it can also be used to pay for off campus housing, up to the cost of on campus housing reported by the schools financial office.  

My credit is full with our house and school loans, and my husband just started to get credit a few months ago.

Learn a LOT about investing out of state.Research the market you are going into and figure out the best markets.Make connections in those markets and vet those connections.Save up more money and move up from the war zone and go to a $30,000 to $50,000 minimum market where there is less crime, less vacant lots and vacant houses, where the police will actually respond to a call from a homeowner, where there are jobs for your tenants to work at, where there are schools for your tenants to send their children, where there are real grocery stores for them to buy real food (not gas station or fast food).  

So this is the path I've chosen to follow up to and including being part of my retirement.I believe that networking and gathering real life experience from doing work myself along with following other's guidance (who have been there/done that) will garner me more knowledge and success than paying "gurus" thousand of dollars for bus trips through a city and region I already know well.I am still formulating a 5 year plan (yes, they are passe now a days but I'm old school) and I feel the first steps would be to connect with other REI's, join the local REI Groups and begin growing my network.Any guidance, advice and suggestions from this point forward will be greatly appreciated!

I can't speak much on out of state investing, I'm the old school, OCD investor who has to drive by and look at my properties.