Additionally, where do you research if an area has a good rental pool? 

Reach out to a loan broker with your exact info and the exact or at least type of property you want to buy and they should have options and opinions. 

In addition, I do not need to make more money so I am not needing to push CA RE.  

In addition we do not accept any applications for longer move in than the remainder of the current month and the next month (so if tenant is unable to move in by march 1, they cannot apply until feb 1 as we are unwilling to go longer than that without rent and will hold another open house).S8 needs to streamline their process if they want to increase their housing options.Best wishes

I used the 75% rule on the income and added it and my DTI without the rental goes from 24% to 38%.Or does it just allow me to just take the net profit of that rental and add it to my rental? 

Additionally, since my parents are nearing the retirement age, I'd like to prioritize low-debt, high-cashflow deals.

Your best route might be to buy a 2 to 4 unit property that you can live in and rent out the additional apartments.

Feel free to ask any questions here.In addition to a "Facebook community", how about a Slack channel?

Any additional mail costs $.50-$.76 depending on the size... so to prevent you from having hundreds of $.50 charges on your credit card, the default "reload" is $50 (you can set this to whatever you like in the app).Hope this helps....

After some additional research we have decided to focus on the aforementioned markets, but I will keep you in mind if we decide to look at Columbus more closely in the future.