Keep in mind if you are keeping the Riverside home for the long haul for children it will be challenging.  

Columbus has more appreciation, and with employers like OSU, Honda, Nationwide, Nationwide Children's Hospital, and multiple fortune 500 companies, the population and job market are continuing to grow.

If MTR is your goal, try and look near Nationwide Children's Hospital.

Our goals are to have a house or two to pass down to our children that is paid off and make some passive income on the side that will allow one for one or both of us to work part time rather than full time.

This is due in large part to major corporations like Intel, Honda, Nationwide Children's Hospital, and Wexner Medical Center investing heavily in the region and creating numerous job opportunities.

Two times, the reason was that her children were sick and she had to attend to them & had no money to pay towards rent until she went back to work.   

MTRs do well here with massive medical employers like Nationwide Children's as well as OSU and their various facilities, the largest being the Wexner Medical Center.

This is due in large part to major corporations like Intel, Honda, Nationwide Children's Hospital, and Wexner Medical Center investing heavily in the region and creating numerous job opportunities. 

The reason I want to do this is to build wealth so that I can give/leave wealth to my children.

Many renters young, single and don't have children.