If your going to buy in Texas around the DFW area reach out to another great agent I have worked with over the years who seems to always find my clients hot pockets listings - @Lucia Rushton

Usually as long as their are no life threatening issues (no HVAC, windows won't open, no hot water), the housing authority will began to pay the rent and give you time to address the required repairs.

Are there four furnaces and four hot water heaters?

I'll bite bc I love the STR market conversation - Mammoth Cave in KY, New River Gorge in WV, Hot Springs in AR, Nashville, IN (the town Nashville located in Indiana), and any major college town that you don't hate with a growing population and level 1 trauma center hospital. 

The market was hot (like today.)  

Single family 2-4br homes are HOT right now!

I have an off market commercial deal in a hot investment area I'm able to get seller financing on.

The one we most recently used was a hot mess so I wouldn't recommend them. 

Soon, there will be a ton of posts below from agents in Columbus and Cleveland to "help" you, but you already know where you want to be.I wouldn't be thinking STR for Ohio unless you are doing woodsy, which can work, but the table stakes are high on those (swimming holes, saunas, game rooms, hot tubs).

So, you need Zillow to tell you it's hot in TX and FL gets hurricanes?