RENT for a few years, use your cash to invest and bring in income.As far as best cities, BP publishes all kinds of top ten lists, I'd search their blog posts and start there.  

@Nathan ChristensenFor taxes I would check out Amanda Han's book published by BiggerPockets or the blog posts by Brandon Hall. 

This software is so affordable and has features like: automatic payments from your tenants bank account, tenant screening, publishing vacancies to sites such as realtor, zillow, Craigslist, etc., and keeps individual spreadsheets for each of your properties.

Remember, always set your acceptance criteria, publish it with your marketing materials, and stay consistent.

In some cases, no, there really isn't any more updated 'data' or articles on the current year or even full-year 2016 because it just takes so long for that stuff to get tabulated and checked and published.

The stuff they publish is written to the lowest common denominator. 

See the following for more on this. https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/2017-ira-dedu...The above chart is for 2017 because the IRS has not yet published the 2018 chart. 

Simply because Delaware do not publish the owners on their public database.

I ahve also co-wrote but not yet published a book with Ron LeGrand, Dave Lindahl, Robyn Thompson, Kathy Kennebrook, Dr Albert Lowry, Lee Phillips, Chris Johnson, Jon Iannotti, Dwan Bent-Twyford, Wright Thurston and a few other old timers. 

Although the IRS has not published a complete list of qualifying expenses, there are some rulings that provide general parameters.