Gaining a risk-free property, with a long-term resident there to pay down your fees, etc, with a property management company in place to hold your hand along the way and making sure your property is kept up with. 

My company manages a little over 400 properties in Ocala and most are OOS investor owned. 

We also have connections with real estate agents, wholeslaers and title companies.

They must be very low odds because insurance companies are in the business of making money, not paying out maximums.

If you know of any property management companies in the Columbus area that you would recommend, I would greatly appreciate your suggestions.Due to the lower down payment requirements, I’m focusing on finding a place where I can house hack and live in one of the units for now.Thank you again for your helpful advice 

Use caution when borrowing against your stock portfolio, especially if it's a high volatility portfolio comprised of individual companies.

I’d love to hear about the crime rates or any other issues (which we cannot guess from the online stats), and how easy or hard it is to find reliable tenants and property management companies.

To the insurance company they will view an STR differently than a LTR.  

Plus, you get huge appreciation here based on how many companies are moving and developing here! 

The learning curve is probably great on importing large quantities or even just large things from a foreign company.