Any other cities I should look into?

Also it has city water and sewer which is metered separately and paid by tenants. 

We spoke with city water department and he said don't worry about it.

You can call the city, make sure there are no liens or scheduled work to be done in the area..... had a house last year, seller didn't disclose that the city was requiring new sewer line in the neighborhood.

Almost every larger city has an online gis map that provides the info. 

I stumbled across a website that had heat maps and rankings for the cities in terms of most desireable so I was just looking to see if some of those would be confirmed by a local as being correct.

Contact REIGuard out of Kansas City, they're great to work with on investment properties.

Also, county or city traffic departments have that information. 

I have lived here my whole life and would love to tell you about our wonderful city.

My "snow shoveler" here in the Twin Cities is leaving and I dont think another tenant will do it.