@Thomas Beard I know this diverges from the intent of your post, but I think there’s a valuable lesson for other investors to learn from your story.

Education Includes determing your best investment strategy, real estate strength & weaknesses, current and projected real estate market, and coming to understand what you don't know.Bigger Pockets is a great place to learn through blogs, posts and contacts here. 

There were other posts about this a while ago.  

First post on the Bigger Pockets forum, and looking to buy my first investment property.

Just wanted to post a quick intro.

I'll post the results once we've got everything setup to see what y'all think.Stay tuned,Aaron

Best thing to do is to call the local housing authority and they can explain some numbers for you and the process (assuming you can get ahold of them).You could always just post the numbers here or in the proper forum and double check it.

All of the things you are stating - like an Air BNB listing, actual rental, postings for rent, etc are great tools to reinforce your intent and use as investment. 

We have posted we have a strict no smoking and no pets policy in our two unit building.

Check out an earlier blog post for tips to strengthen your credit score.