Apologies for all the questions but figured it'd be more efficient all in one post.

The appraiser will do a 1007 to determine the market rent and the lender will use that figure to calculate the Debt Service Coverage Ratio.

I enjoy looking for deals and figuring out how to rehab the properties etc, but I hate the accounting side. 

SarahI’m gonna give a slightly different answer than others, figure out where/how you want to live within reason & than figure out a way to use strategies to make that somewhat affordable but using a strategy 1st approach is really risky in this market, because it might take 4-5 years to even break even vs renting, so you want to find a place you’d be happy to live for 4-5 years & than find strategies like house hacking that make that more affordable. 

Here's some hopefully, helpful cut & paste info:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Recommend you first figure out the property Class you want to invest in, THEN figure out the corresponding location to invest in.Property Class will typically dictate the Class of tenant you get, which greatly IMPACTS rental income stability and property maintenance/damage by tenants.If you apply Class A assumptions to a Class B or C purchase, your expectations won’t be met and it may be a financial disaster.If you buy/renovate a Class A property in Class D area, what quality of tenant will you get?

I would figure out the market of interest in those states and then on the micro level look at neighborhoods in the market.

My wholesaling checks are 6 figures!

We have done section 8 in a couple of markets and been happy with it, but the Tampa Housing Authority has been very hard to get a ahold of and I can't seem to figure out how to even enroll my homes in the program.

@James KieferRecommend you first figure out the property Class you want to invest in, THEN figure out the corresponding location to invest in.If you apply Class A assumptions to a Class B or C purchase, your expectations won’t be met and it may be a financial disaster.If you buy/renovate a Class A property in Class D area, what quality of tenant will you get?

The key is to generate a solid list that starts with high equity homeowners and you can layer on top other filters like Notice of Default, downsizer, absentee owner, etc.In my experience, the goal isn't to make someone consider an offer on their home, they're either going to be interested in selling or not, you can't control that, but you can control trying to figure out is they have any interest and finding out their motivation.