@Justin Smits - Thanks for talking me back from the brink, I owe you a virtual socially-distant beer. 

After months of educating myself, networking through local REIAs and a few other investor-friendly events, in addition to working toward my savings goal, it is finally feeling like a reality and less like a distant goal. 

Looking to acquire my second property in the not so distant future.

But got to just find a good trustworthy team for far distant investing.

I figured that it was time to start niching down and or even choose a goal, but I had a call with a distant family member of mine who is like a mentor now and he really showed me that I am way way way too early on in the process to already have a choice.

My belief is that you will see some investors selling their rentals to recoup lost rents/capital at some point in the not so distant future. 

When supply = demand, things are quite balanced and it does not signal a crash.Going from the Macro picture of the market data to the Micro of what I'm personally seeing in my own business, I closed a sale with investors on 4/15 that went off without a hitch despite socially distant closing, some hoops for us to jump through with buyers signing from out of state, etc.   

Ultimately, I have realized that I would soon like to invest (long distant) in the near future.

How do you go about analyzing a distant market?

A 15 minute drive takes me from my house to my most distant rental.