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.

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.

Gutted the kitchen and dining/living room area.

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

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

I grew up north of San Francisco and then moved to live and invest in Reno, NV.