I landed one of the only ones in my tiny town and it is so nice every month to only have a few personal bills like car insurance, cable/internet, and groceries while tenant rent covers almost all the rest.

The internet is your friend, utilize everything you can to figure out what the cost of potential properties would be, how to acquire them, and what your potential rents could be.

I think I'm leaning toward a broad based low cost index fund.  

Originally posted by @Brandon Sturgill:@Kody Bybee I think @Remington Lyman sold more Columbus properties alone in the last 6 months...if you are including SFR and MF it feels like the numbers are low...on market MF transactions are pretty low in Columbus....there were 567 MLS MF transactions in Columbus in the last 6 months...nearly 17,000 SFR in the same period...I don't know...is it possible that only 1% of all inventory is purchased by out-of-state buyers....Maybe my criteria wasn't broad enough on listsource.

But I have issues with the cable internet at my home, so it makes more sense for me to go the flash drive route then thru an SAAS like Iron Mountain or Dropbox.

San Antonio and Houston are great to visit, too, and (broad generalization) a bit less expensive to be close to 'downtown'. 

That is a very broad question, that should be posed to your tax advisor.The first step is making sure that the asset is depreciated correctly. 

Some internet searching gave me rent increases of 3% (national average) annually and 7% for property value (in Florida). 

Commercial is a broad brushGood luck

Some big internet companies are offering a lower rate but with way more closing costs.