The realtor I saw in a local coffee shop new me as we had worked together previoulsy.

I rather pay a bit more in the beginning and have a lower vacancy rate in a good neighborhood than a cheaper priced home that takes a few months to rent.Good luck. 

Any advice on which neighborhoods are great for investing is greatly appreciated.

The median price points she showed me were on the higher side $330,000 to $470,000 depending on the county but you could probably find lower priced properties (I don't invest in Atlanta so I don't know the breakdown of neighborhoods).

With things like the ONE Linden plan in Linden, which is a 50M plan to improve the neighborhood.

For furnishings, we bought Sarah Weaver's MTR shopping list.

To which my response was, "so 5 min to complete, 1 hour and 55 min to make sure the new battery doesn't explode in the remote and burn down the entire neighborhood?"

May be a good time to get a fixer-upper in a nice neighborhood and fill with roommates, or a 2-4 unit and do the same thing there. 

Columbus has a lot of transitional neighborhoods, so it's also important that your PM works in the neighborhoods you are investing in.

Sellers, will decide, at their listing agreement whether they want to compensate a buyer agent or not and live with their consequence of whatever they choose.Buyers agents will now have to have that difficult discussion with their buyers about their compensation upfront and a buyer will more likely shop around for an agent and learn to negotiate what they will pay their agent if the seller is not offering or not offering enough.