Also, the property taxes have exploded to ridiculous levels.  

However, with population growth exploding here, I want to turn around by this time next year and buy my first rental property.

We have just started in Property Investment and only flipped one house, but we have just come across an opportunity to buy a home that needs work to BRRRR, but the property sits on 2.5 acres of prime development land, right in the middle of a town that is just exploding with development, has excellent schools, a fantastic downtown, and people just want to live in this place ( and so do we, hence why we are moving away from Florida and back to Ohio ) .

He is a very busy person (during one of our discussions, his phone was exploding as he was dealing with offers from investors on a wholesale deal he was assigning - great to eavesdrop on that conversation), and he would love to enter into a new market - just very little time to do it. 

@Maryann Harris The AZ market is still exploding.

When times get rough and the economy tanks, and your tenant moves out, and your hot water heater explodes, which would you rather pay, 1k or 1400? 

This is not going to explode your money but CDs provide a guaranteed return. 

Find your people, put it out there, and watch things explode. 2017 seemed to be the story of the bamboo tree.

Columbus pop growth is absolutely exploding, it is also a big college town so there are a lot of student rentals.

When these new investors explode here, usually with something like an SFR that's 40-60 years old, they say nothing about roof design, basement wall construction, beam placement, site slope, drain extensions, none of the things they should obviously be thinking about in buy a property they intend to hold 20+ years.