All indications here are of a pretty healthy market. 

From what I read in The Economist, these Sun Belt regions often see steady population growth which can drive healthy rent appreciation.

LTR tenants are required to have the home professionally cleaned. 

I want a resort style feel, clean neighborhood, golf carts, and pool a plus .

First of all, my personal credit was a very good at 735 midscore. 100% financed tidied it up just a little bit more with  just cleaning up a couple of things on my credit.

Definitely do homework on making sure you can get a clean title and make sure that the foreclosure was on the first lien.  

The property was being lived in....of course it could use a refresh which we also agreed to do a deep clean for you....fact of the matter is is that you chose to walk away from our agreement prematurely and ended up having to go about it on your own.

I have a good credit score (791 based solely on credit cards) make almost $200,000 per year, and have very healthy investment and retirement accounts in America.

Have contracts or covenants that keep newer homes there and keeping yards clean.  

I've always found inventory rates (and how they've moved over time ie previous 1-2 years) to be the starting point for where a market's health is at.