@Jennifer Botello,Check out Urban Land Institute - ULI.

If you move there, get owners home insurance, utilities in your name, not a landlord policy, move all your billing, medical, voting, car registration, etc etc there you should be able to prove you live there 6 months.

In January my wife and I purchased 130 acres of land, for 480,000$. we are going to sell two 10 acre building lots,  probably for somewhere between 100-150,000 each. we will keep the other 110 acres.  2 acres we will subdivide out for ourselves to build a house on,  and the rest will be rolled into a Christmas tree business. on the acreage that we sell,  will we be hit with capital gains since we're still going to be approximately 200,000 in the negative? 

If they provide you one, I would still say I am getting my own.I would ask for full demographics of the area, including incomes, home prices, education levels, crime levels, etc.I would want to see full tenant application and any pertinent backup verifying income, employment history, landlord references, etc of the in-place tenant.I would want to talk to the property manager, if they are coming with the property.  

also how would I go about finding vacant land for sale my city ?

I am an out of state mid-term rental landlord.

What are my rights as a landlord and what if any do I owe him as a occupier? 

Were the 13 homes builders for others as a GC or you bought the land , built and sold ? 

We would love to connect to anyone who has a meetup or is currently a landlord in the area.

Some banks may only loan based on the value of the land.