@Kelly BeckWhen you are developing your strategy on where to invest you can Google the individual states that fit your investment strategy and goals.

What types of properties/strategies are you interested in?

In addition, I included my plan strategy in the attachments.

(D) LASTLY is Pricing Strategy.   

First, its best to identify a strategy, choose a market that aligns with it, and establish your Core 4.The main challenge I observed is that individuals often lack a clear end goal or strategy, or they select a market that doesn't align with it. 

@Scott EwellLeveraged vs debt-free is a personal decision to some extent.Leverage will give you a higher ceiling on your investment, whereas debt free provides the lower floor.While I can't say which is best for you in particular; I can say that, in my experience, every majorly successful investor I've come across uses debt in their strategy to some degree.

I'm still learning the market myself but Dayton is ripe for potential fix/flip strategies.

More often than not, when people really start digging in to the data, it becomes a rabbit hole and creates fear- you start looking for some random piece of data that will confirm that there is no risk, which of course, does not exist. 

We can all keep telling you what to do but we don't have all your data.

Hey everyone, hoping to buy my first property within the next couple years and have built out some analytics using building permit data to help inform my decision.