For LTRs, prioritize markets with population growth and strong job markets.Wherever you choose, work with an investor-friendly agent who knows the local market and can help you analyze deals.

Hopefully your local market is growing - population and jobs increasing.

@David Rodriguez  MTR is about location for health travelers and you also have a healthy  population of snowbirds in Phoenix. 

I can upload these lists into PropStream and PropStream will find the owner information and populate it into my list so I can export it and have if skiptraced.

I hope that makes sense as i'm trying to better understand how to go through this process the right way and increase my chances of approval. 

Most service or trades people us included increase the rates for customers we don’t want.  

I'd suggest checking in with some social service organizations within a few miles of the property to see if they work with people/populations in the area looking for this type of house.

Growing population, great employment opportunities, steady appreciation etc.The best amenity has been location.

Wood has a huge variability in strength--between pine varieties, the stress which can cause them to fail varies by more than 2x and you can see 20%+ increase in strength as it ages.Then I have stress concentrations which will yield and then redistribute the load in practice, but not according to the calculations I'm allowed to do. 

The equity increased a ton especially w the limited supply