This is where you live in one side.

Tenants should be paying the owner.Do you also live in the house?

I live in California but am looking to invest in Texas, Alabama.  

2) If you do owner-occupied cashout refi for best rate, you technically have to live in the home for 12 months before renting it out. * Some responders here may suggest not worrying about that and renting it out anyways.

We travel for work (healthcare) and chronically live out of MTRs, so it will be our first time operating a shorter term, but won’t be an entirely foreign situation to us.

Then I plan to become a travel nurse and we will live in the RV while the two are being rented out and go from there buying more properties.

If you're willing and able, I do recommend the "house hacking" strategy which is just a fancy name for buying a rental property and living in one of the units, because you'll get very favorable financing - an owner-occupied fixed-rate 30-year mortgage.I'd also say, analyze that property as if you won't live there and it's a pure rental, and make sure the property is still cash flow positive if there's a tenant in your unit because then you'll know if it's actually a good investment.And when you analyze it, include payment of a property manager in your #s because if you don't, and doing so would make it go cash flow negative, then you've just bought yourself a job because you literally can't step away from managing it without losing money.

While you’ll probably be able to eventually prove you’ve been living there.

Gutted the kitchen and dining/living room area.

Quote from @Kamal Martin: Quote from @Julian Zamora:Thanks for the info,No I don't live n PR do you?