My daughter & 2 roommates rented a house in Dallas.

Are you looking for a SFR with extra rooms for roommates? 

But while you're saving up, consider a mini house hack and get a roommate!

Charlotte had seemed like such a perfect city because of the colleges nearby and tons of work downtown, it hinted to me it would be easier to find roommates to rent out the rooms to while I live there.

It can be difficult to get a cash-flowing property (or break-even) with 100% financing UNLESS you're doing some rehab on it.VA loans are great tools, but it can often make sense to buy a property you will live in and rent out a room or two to some roommates. 

Or was it priced high but that happened to be the week Mommy and Daddy were in town because Junior was having problems with pot-smoking roommates and they wanted him to move out ... anywhere?

I have students and roommates sign an agreement that if there are circumstances where one wants to leave, the other(s) will be responsible for the full amount of rent, and the student/roommate who is leaving will have to pay a fee equal to their share of the rent (equally divided rent by the number of occupants).

I would question the policy of not renting rooms (you cannot have a roommate?

I will have a roommate who will rent out a room in this future property to help offset the monthly expenses.

I think you would have little trouble finding roommates to pay the mortgage.