You'll likely be hard pressed to find much in terms of cash flow in Dallas or Denver if that's your goal.I live a bit north of you in the Central Coast of CA and invest in Detroit.

You will be hard pressed to receive meaningful price range without know the address and seeing the condition of the unit/building, what features the building has etc.

Nolo press has some good landlord books for the legal stuff.

This is why you'd be hard pressed to find an MAI Appraisal anything less than 50 if not 80 pages.

I particularly liked the following part of your why - "Being able to give freely and be a blessing to others, both financially and with our time, out of extreme gratitude for the countless ways God has chosen to bless us", and I believe God will bless you even more to be able to give more.Luke 6: 38(KJV) Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom.

Early Jan they said there were some showings but aren’t communicating unless I press them.

If you don't own very much, then it's really not so pressing to protect those minimal assets - which also allows you to spend that money directly into investments and grow faster (potentially.)

I suggest you read here and also check out the books by Nolo Press.

They have to present a bill in various forms to the people, send notice they want to press for more $, justify why, have town hall's and get yelled at, asked WTF there doing with $ they already have, have every wasteful action called out, it's a vicious smack down. 

I pressed him and again he responded, "Windcrest".