What are your criteria in a property apart from needing rehab for appreciation Khushbu,I'm saddened to hear this false narrative being repeated over and over again on BP while the turnkey marketers/providers keep piling on and selling crap rentals for the "perceived" price of gold with their OOS stuff to CA suckers, I mean CA investors. 

That was gold.

Can anyone here suggest good sources for data on neighborhood vitality in Ohio?

Fools gold. 

There are a lot of repetitive tasks in this business, and many are vital not to miss, so having a system that continually reminds you of the next steps to take automatically is a life-saver with not having to keep track manually.Also, if you are not proficient at Excel, make that a priority!  

Those referrals are gold.

The duplex I'm househacking fits that criteria.If you can find a househack that breaks even while you live in it, that's gold!

Hit vital targets and you are going down.

Fortunately my manual is bringing a sense of order to this chaos, so I can enjoy these free materials in a much more constructive way until the time comes that I can move forward.It's truly a gold mine of information, but gold doesn't mine itself!!

I’m originally from Chicago, to me towns like lorain are a gold mine because I could never find a property so cheap like here in Chicago.