Are you planning on investing heavily in the property to make it nicer and potentially drive up the rents?  

Hey Vernon, I invest heavily in the Columbus market and work with out-of-state investors from both the east and west coast who love investing here.

The book heavily investigates the 18 year cycle and it's actually really compelling and eye opening.

If your intent is to sell your rental(s) and leave the RE asset class then I suppose the # years of cashflow metric might be more applicable, but I think it heavily relies on the assumption that you've accurately timed the top of the market which requires a crystal ball and sorcery above my pay grade.

I have been heavily researching BRRRR recently.

This is a heavily biased answer because this is who I am with, but they are a quality property management company. 

We are leaning heavily into this statement.

We invest heavily on the West end of PCB.

Your other assets are mostly in creditor protected entities, such as retirement accounts, personal residential homestead; and what’s not is heavily mortgaged, or exempt by Federal bankruptcy law.

Hi Adam,I've always been a real estate guy but exposed my personal portfolio quite heavily to a regional bank ETF.I guess time will tell if I'll be a "Hero" or "Zero" lolCome on you Fed and reduce those rates 😁Real estate is and always will be my bread and butter tho.You can't beat the safety of a "brick and mortar" investment per se.My best advice would be if you are going to go down the path of investing in out of state rentals to have a growth mindset.Buying 1 or 2 isn't worth the risk or hassle and you might as well invest in your own back yard.10+ years in the industry and my most unsatisfied investors are the one's that build smaller portfolio's.If a property goes vacant and takes a few months to get it back performing, with a small portfolio that could impact cashflow of 30-50% for that year.Our investors that own 7,8 or 10+ properties, don't even feel it if 1 or 2 go vacant.Just my opinion and wishing you much success