Rentals don't count.

Easy to dump a lousy rental, but impossible to get back the time we wasted in managing it.

The person you inherited the property from used it as a rental? 

I went through someone else last year which has all of my previous rental property information on it and nothing has changed except now I have a child.

Better than buying a section 8 rental for 180,000 2000 miles away2.

If you plan to live there in the winters, you might have a hard time doing long term rental outside of that and finding a new tenant every summer.

Do not expect to keep them and be prepared to have to evict.If the jurisdiction this property is in requires anything in place in order to evict such as rental licenses, etc., get them in place before discussing an increase with the tenant because it's much easier to get inspections and repairs done when the tenant cooperates.

Verifying last 2 years of rental history very important!

That being said, I had competing issues. 1) my wife and I are buying a new primary residence (much to my chagrin), and 2) in december, we bought a condo rental that is currently being renovated (a much lighter project) and that process is also a little stressful.   

I have two rental properties through the VA loan being military.