I've had a career in engineering, banking, international insurance and real estate investing and loved all of it.

In my mind the only viable option is good ole fashioned long term rental. 

Partner Driven financed the Hiawatha Way deal by utilizing internal capital resources.

Consult local banks or international lenders for details.

Thousands of investors nationally and internationally, not from the South, see the growth, economic advancement, and solid fundamentals, and see the opportunity in Multi-Family without considering inventory available in these cities.

If they wanted there own separate stand alone appfolio, so it's segregated data to them, ok solved data privacy but why not internalize PM's than? 

Real Estate is just a tough bizz on almost any form or fashion takes work and does require some sales and marketing skills..

I have never seen someone throwing every one of the fashionable strategies into a single short paragraph.

I even called a city inspector who had been through the house and got an idea of internal condition. 

That said, "chickens coming home to roost" from the various seller-financing deals done WRONG is a very strong potentiality, as issues of such will most likely grow in occurrence and thus possibly press internal audit's that uncover such, and resulting enforcement actions start enacting in a volume.