It’s a great out of state market with a ton of strategies at play.

If you have more time than money, this is the free way to do it.If you value your time, then use one of the paid sites, like flsonline, foreclosures daily, or a host of other data providers. 

Your risk tolerance and investment goals will largely dictate which strategy is best for you.3.

Keep in mind with this investment strategy you are more so running a business than you are investing in real estate.

Look at the data on datarabbu 

You should consult a tax professional to help get it sorted and set up a strategy.

Columbus has become a major tech hub in the Midwest with large companies like Intel investing $20 billion, Amazon investing $3.5 billion, Google building 2 new data centers: one in downtown Columbus and the other in right outside of U.S. 33 in Lancaster, there are many properties which you can get in less than 250k, with very high ROI.  

Hi Everyone,I'm a data scientist interested in buying out of state property, and it boggles me how difficult it is to find US-wide real estate market data at the metro/city-level. 

In addition, the deals will be based on long-term rental outlook, but we are going to see how a mid-term rental strategy pans out for the higher cash flow in the short term.

@Tony Nuttall personally I’m not excited about a 2/1 because there are fewer exit strategies.