I hope you enjoy small towns that lack diversity.I am sure Dayton has some real estate meetups.

Quote from @Ben Trageser: I would recommend calling the zoning department of the town and asking.

I agree with your idea of exploring the smaller surrounding towns in East Texas.

ya I got totally home runned on a 40 lot development I was doing just north of town was in the county but the polictics are the same. 

Based on a gut check (checking the town population + location on google maps), this may be the case. 

Killeen is a good cash flow market, but you have to buy in the right area and also time your tenant turnover to the Permanent Change of Station (PCS) season since it is predominately military town

If you do more than one unit this way make sure you don't need a boarding house license in your town. 

These days, a couple of things seem to be affecting how and where college age students are attending classes. The use of online classes has been increasing every year and are projected to continue to increase. Also,...

Hopefully they will see you are not screwing around and will leave on their own.I hope you got a great deal on this property, because tenants in place are a liability, not an asset, in the Empire State.Now, who loves NY (besides our many "guests from out of town")?

@Vivian Huang  Town or beach it depends whether you're buying for investment purposes or for yourself or both.I'm buying mostly for investment purposes.