I’m also open to nearby areas like the Red Bank/North Shore border.

First off its, border not boarder.

By the way....my first rental property was just over the border from Spokane on Hauser Lake.

We have chosen 5+ units as it seems it will be easier to secure financing as the asset will qualify itself, rather than our income/credit score having to be used to qualify (which cross border lenders will probably consider risky as we have no financial footprint in the US yet).

It's just inside the city border.

My husband is about to graduate Army boot camp and we should be getting stationed at Fort Campbell (on the border of Oak Grove, KY and Clarksville, TN).

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In either case, I find this behavior amongst agents extremely misleading and bordering on a breach of fiduciary relationship with their clients because it takes away a potentially higher sale number.

Plus you have Border Patrol Agents that are stationed there who need housing! 

South of the border, rent control is rare.