It's called a "test ad" and should have been ran during due diligence to test for the demand of your product in that market.

One of my places has natural gas.

I don't think ill buy another MFG home in Tennessee, its just a bit tougher product to sell as they are less desirable, and the values tend to be much lower than a site built SFR.

One source of cities to avoid is Neighborhood Scout's 100 most dangerous cities.Disaster Risk - Some parts of the country suffer frequent natural disasters.

natural disaster/local emergency etc....would point to the sec of the lease that talks about that and not provide compensation.

VA Entitlement Restoration: Veterans can restore previously used VA entitlement by:-Selling the original property, repaying their current VA loan in full, and disposing of the home-Allowing a qualified Veteran to assume their current loan and substitute their entitlement for theirs-Refinancing their existing VA loan into a non-VA product and invoking what's known as the "one-time restoration of entitlement."

You can try to act as a PM and guest comm from afar but its tough without seeing the physical product sometimes.

It's definitely plausible with FHA or there's other conventional 5% products where you can achieve a similar down payment program depending on your state. 

Does anyone have any recommendations of lenders on the northside of Houston that are used to providing these type of loan products for out of state investors? 

This is your nature you are not likely going to change the core of who you are.