Many big-tech companies have established themselves here or are expanding into the Columbus market.

Turno is a great option, also try checking local fb groups specific to that market. 

what should be a reason to choose 1 market over the other how to identify a market to buy?

Purchase price: $55,000 Cash invested: $30,000 Purchased property was renter-occupied at $600/month at the time of purchaseDid not renew lease with tenant.Completed full Renovation at $30,000 6 days on the rental market before the property management team got a signed lease at $1200/month Renter moved in July.ARV $179,980 What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

I have mowed and taken care of the lot all 8 years we have lived here and it has lived as if we have one acre with our house.Question: if we sell the house to one party and the lot to another do both qualify for the primary residence capital gains exemption?

Learn your market and learn to market. 

If you use a HELOC, I would think about a BRRRR-ish strategy (No perfect BRRRR exists right now unless you go full off-market door knocking/postcard campaign/etc) to where you can refinance and get some of that money back, so you don't have $25k chunks of money at a 9-10% interest rate floating out there indefinitely.

There is a stunning luxury STR on market that would generate six figures in gross annual income.

This helps reduce operational costs and increase efficiencies, hopefully giving the landlord back time to spend on other areas of the business.Market Trend Predictive Analytics: There are AI algorithms that can analyze large amounts of data in order to predict property values and future market trends.

It's a strong cash flow market.