His wife calls us "dog-pilers" in her blog, Jay.

Here is a great blog post on BiggerPockets that might address your question and provide you with some options to get started, even with a less-than-stellar credit score. https://www.biggerpockets.com/...

You might want to follow the "Deep Dive" series we're doing on our BiggerPockets blog about Metro Detroit cities and City of Detroit Neighborhoods:https://www.biggerpockets.com/...

Again, the BiggerPockets store has some books for this or you can learn by watching podcasts, reading blogs, and interacting on the forum.

I've got a pretty good understanding of the basics from reading the blogs, the BP books and listening to the podcasts.

YES, we may be a little biased, but check out our blog here on BP comparing Detroit to other cities and Deep Dives on Metro Detroit cities & neighborhoods: https://www.biggerpockets.com/...Your biggest question shouldn't be WHERE to invest, but HOW you will invest!

The forums and blog posts can also be great resources for getting familiarized with all things REI.  

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.

Agree - AirDNA is the best for STR researchTheir blog also post good articles on the subject for market-hunting https://www.airdna.co/blog/ran...

Brian - We've written comprehensively about those topics on the BiggerPockets Blog, and it has certainly come up many times here on the forums as well.