I have seen many a mom and pop landlord do very very well in smaller less intense pressure areas.  

Yes -- they're not as time-intensive.

Screening must be thoroughly followed to get what basically are the best of the worst.Bottom line is , more intensive management, lower standards (tenant and landlord) more damage, arrogant entitlement attitude, collection issues and vacancies.Set your business model accordingly and money can defiantly be made but you must set lower standards for your tenants and yourself.

They say they will coach for 16 weeks intensively and provide me with everything I need to make my first sale and keep going, any thoughts?

I think that property management is an easy thing to "do", but is time intensive, and not so easy to do well.  

Lots of new hotels being built along I30, the primary buildings have gone up at the Texas A&M Texarkana campus, I hear Division 1 or 2 college basketball team or games are coming to the city.

This is more time-intensive, as you supply the utilities and Wi-Fi and have younger tenants, but the vacancy issue is mitigated.

There is no other legal way to put a mobile home on a piece of land today in Houston city limits.I do not have any experience with the hardship process, but assume that it's paperwork intensive, and probably not something that would be approved for an investor.

It was an intense struggle for the first 3 years.

My husband and I both work full time and we have a 15 month old son so we want to avoid the more management-intensive C/D properties.