Reach out direct if you want to go over anything specific and personalized.  

If you have specific questions feel free to let me know.

Let them know - as specifically as possible - what you are trying to achieve.

Have something specific in mind?

and is this your thought on my situation specifically, being a total beginner?

Connect with some of those Nashville and Tennessee Facebook investor groups and ask this question there since it's so market specific.

Like, digging into specific sub-markets and getting that super detailed intel requires more than just surface-level stuff.

Are you talking about buying a big complex and making it specifically rented to section 8 tenants, or are you just wanting some guidance for single family house being rented by a section 8 tenant? 

In most jurisdictions when you rent a SFH everything on the lot is included unless specifically excluded in the lease.  

Even then, OOS REI will come with some significant challenges...Specifically, one of the MANY reasons OOS REI is so difficult (esp. for beginners) is that it requires you to assemble, manage, and incentivize a team of people you'll be completely reliant on from hundreds of miles away (sometimes without even meeting those people face to face).