I can tell you that Tampa has everything, from major sports teams to beaches and theme parks.

Some other pros would be weather, globally sought after, growing infrastructure across the state to accomodate high speed rail, space industry, we have several major airports, growing tech/medical industries as well as the ever growing theme park monsters that help to bring in about 70 million people a year here, we stay pretty purple with politics and very alternative lifestyle friendly, schools overall aren't great, but we do have some very good ones including prep schools/acadamy's. landlord friendly and so much more too!

So I can hopefully make 5k a month to pay for the meds. ( rental income doesn't count against my insurance income so it's really my last hope.) 

Whether you're a wholesaler looking to flip a profit,  short term rental owner, value investor or purchasing a legacy property for your family, nobody wants to overpay or invest and rarely is worthwhile attention provided to rough deals or tales of caution.Anyone investing in real estate long enough, has cliche's: It's not as easy as it looks would be a common theme, another might be, expect the unexpected?

CSUMB students might be helpful for renting, maybe "theme" it for a student?

A common theme I'm seeing is to just request to see the applicant's voucher to make sure it is the amount that you are looking for. 

Especially around older communities like Cicero or any older homes, you want to look for what's known as "knob and tube" wiring - individual conductors, possibly uninsulated, strung inside walls and other spaces using ceramic "knobs" as insulating suspension.

Unfortunately, those loan programs do not accommodate owner-occupied properties - and that will be a common theme for all private lender DSCR programs.My local banks here in Missouri offer 6-month seasoning on their 30-year fixed conventional programs, and no seasoning requirements for their 5-year balloon commercial programs.If you have not done so already, I would recommend checking in with your local banks on which programs would be a good fit for your personal residence refinance.

But regardless .... we won't stop You all got dragged into the hood.. this theme repeats itself quite a bit in those markets.. 

I have one small unit in the med center here (first floor) and we initially thought travel nurses would be the target and we actually switched our focus to patients that needed longer term stays.