Major issues are lack of parking, lack of elevators, leading to numerous unlived in units.  

Even if you rent at a break even or slight loss, if you could have 3 years of rental income offsetting your mortgage while realizing 3-6% appreciation, could be worth it, especially if you think appreciating for this area will exceed national averages.

They are based out of the Smokies, but will ship nation wide.

Housing sales price is way below national average being the median price for a single family home is 90k.

I guess people forget that unemployment a few years ago was 10% nationally.

You're still considered US citizen for qualification purposes not a foreign national.

We have numerous who have their payments set up to auto-pay.

Screwed up our taxes numerous times and last month our insurance was dropped since they didn't pay it appropriately.  

And while crime isn't out of control in either suburb, it is higher than the national average and the schools are medicore at best.

There are a ton of PMs in Austin, for example, including a bunch of national and local brokerages so the competition is thick.