I just bought my first short term rental investment property on a popular river for kayaking and camping in my state.

You might do well with just vacationers and convention goers but if not, look to interns and students.A popular pivot has been towards military and healthcare essential workers.

These are not as popular as they were a few years ago in the Denver market, but it can be a good tool to have in your toolkit if the seller is willing to accept one.

You're looking at the Midwest for pricing similar to that, although it should be noted that both the acquisition price and rental rate will be higher than what you've proposed in any part of the cheapest metro areas so long as you aren't in the ghetto.Of all of these kinds of markets Cleveland is the one I am most familiar with and it's also very popular with investors across the USA so I figured you'd get some value out of reading The Ultimate Guide to Grading Cleveland Neighborhoods.

The In-N-Out distribution center allows for an entirely new popular franchise to grow around its 12 hour driving radius.

I have a lot of books on my want to read list including the popular such as Rich Dad Poor Dad, some of Bigger pockets book, Art of the Deal, and others. 

You will want to look at neighborhoods adjacent to the most popular ones to find better deals.

I’ve been chewing the cud on this topic (loan vs cash) for a while and I know my opinion isn’t popular.

@Jon GreerSources cited debunking the popular myth that Wall Street is driving up prices on a large scale.https://youtu.be/WjN8Fn0qWDc

I tend to like the organization of books though which is why I'm not really even attempting to come on here to really try to dig, until I have at least a fundamental knowledge of what I'm doing.Is there a really solid technical books that are popular around here and everyone knows about because they're really good, that start from 0 knowledge, but are not afraid to just lay out things with high information density?