As you compare the deals, you'll start to see what's important to you as a passive investor. 

This included drilling holes underneath the crawl space from outside (No basement in house) so the poison could get very deep under the ground. 

As you mentioned City-Data is the best I've found, but there is no substitute for being on the ground and getting a general feel for an area. 

I live quite modestly relative to my income and I'm young enough that I'm fine jumping into a job again if I need to, so I've got a pretty high risk tolerance (so long as it has comparable reward potential, of course).I've been planning on just making money off the investment income, but I've always been rather interested in real estate investing and it occurred to me recently that I will probably have an easier time getting a mortgage now with my income than I will in a couple months when I don't have an active income.

@Sam Josh You can cash out for any purpose but did you compare HELOC on PR and cash out on rental property interest rate.

I’ve not had a chance to research the percentage of households that were renting at the end of the recession as compared to before to see if there might be a potential benefit to having rental property in a period of time when people are not buying homes.Good luck with the first property!!

If you still are still undecided after considering those factors, I would compare both markets.

I made this exact statement on a thread about JV ing on notes.. and I said before you JV on notes since you back grounding some blue collar renter why would you not background someone you going to invest 50 100 200k with.. and I got blasted for that..

It is also in a speculative neighborhood with many new private and city projects breaking ground. 

Find comparable properties that have a similar amount of square footage and lot size.