The cash flow in the areas you describe can be immense and there are many ways to mitigate the risk.

Any information, ideas or research recommendation for this and future properties will help out immensely.

The tax benefits would be immensely better from being leveraged.

We're looking at expanding from our current knowledge in the real estate industry (we both used to be agents in another state) and learn the ins and outs of flipping, wholesaling, and eventually renting. mostly looking to learn from the immense amount of knowledge within the community and hopefully share some of what we learned from the agents side as well. also hoping to meet up and network with others in the industry as well and get recommendations on good trade workers that work around the area as we haven't networked nearly at all since moving here.Looking forward to hearing and learning from you all.

This helps immensely @John Leavelle thank you so much for your time! 

., then having your own license can help immensely as not only do you get a portion of your side of the commission depending on your broker agreement, but you also get business deductions like mileage, equipment, etc. 

That helped immensely with improving my credit score.

My conscience was helped immensely by the fact that she told me she had one kid on moving in and actually had 3 by different fathers living there on and off (it was a one bedroom apartment).

I’m also an out of state investor and he was, and has been, immensely helpful in getting everything set up and also providing references for things like a CPA or brokers.

This is just an example of one of the immense yet ignored opportunities throughout the field of caring for the elderly.