Then later on purchase homes with cash (single family homes), I would like to learn how to read the market and know where a state or city is thriving but also learn where it's not.

Big Banks like Wells Fargo, BOA, Citi, US Bank, and Chase utilize lending programs aimed to service large swaths of depositors.

@Sean Doyle - Toledo is the only city I operate in.

One is in National City, another in Grant Hill and last one in Fairmount Village.

I would check some of the sub markets 15-40 minutes from Raleigh city center that still benefits from the Raleigh economy.- Everyone's situation and goals are different but I would assume there are a few quality markets within an hour of where you are located in Florida that would check a lot of your boxes. 

I am moving from Kansas City Missouri.

THEN, during the phase where a SFH investment went bad, there is the stress of hearing about, and PERSONALLY dealing with a stressing about it. ie. tenant stops paying rent, political problems in the city causing massive differences in fundamentals, tornado hits your house, then you are IN THE THICK OF IT for a few months, dealing with the fact that this investment you already put 10-12 hours into, probably will take another 10-12 hours of your own stress as the $50K loss materialized.

Plus virtually every city of note has a REIA with monthly meetings and other meetups.

But I get it in the lower value assets of the mid west and rust belt cities wholesalers dominate because they spend 100s of thousands in marketing for those type of assets..

I've spent the last 3 years nagging the city to sell me a lot next to my property so I can install a driveway and they've finally agreed.