@Ethan Cooke  thank you   and thank you to the rest who responded.as I am sitting here drinking my coffee I am thinking its probably not fair to the neighbors to do super short term rentals I have seen houses trashed by parties and my house has far to many nice things to even remotely risk that one.So probably either not rent it and leave it vacant or if I do take a 6 month lease at a time with a very well qualified NON smoking no animals tenant with a large deposit..

These are public record and there is a GIS Database (Portal Catastro Digital y Productos Cartográficos (crimpr.net))where you can access this parcels to see their "Catastro number", owner, area, the assessed value for both the land and the structure for tax purposes and you should also see the date of the last sale and the price.

My company has non real estate (automotive related) operations in CHA/ATL/DFW/TPA/NSH/PHX, but I have family in Nashville and have grown to love Florida in my travels.  

If using a lender this is a non issue.

I stumbled upon Bigger Pockets recently and have been listening to the podcast non-stop ever since!

We've been eying restaurants, especially QSR's but what we've been finding is that these are commanding a premium (especially if they're corporate tenants, not franchisees) and come with fairly low CAP rates and the ability to negotiate the prices is almost non-existent.

Also, depends on how much equity you have in the house or is it really required if you have a non-recourse loan with low equity?

I've been taking a real estate investment course available through my public library and the low rates of success for renters was presented as a way in which this is a solid investment strategy.

Any way you look at it, if you dont plan on living there, it's a non owner occupied property and lenders will consider it an "investment" property.

It is a non-cash loss!