@Nicholas McCormick, thanks for the offer!

There are plenty of great renters aside from travel nurses looking to rent by the room and most will be outside of the healthcare field.To your questions:If the home will be furnished,  Furnished Finder will need to be amongst those that you use.Other top platforms: FB Marketplace, Zillow, Roomster, Airbnb, Nextdoor.  

There are plenty of fish in the sea AKA tenants to choose from. 

But there’s plenty of good ones too.

I am sure he has come across this plenty of times.

Chicago has a fantastic real estate community, and there are plenty of networking opportunities.

Despite the extra requirements we had plenty of showing and very little vacancy. 

If you present the listing well, put it on multiple platforms and are asking a reasonable rent you will get plenty of interest and applications quickly. 

I have gotten a seller's credit for my 3 existing units but to be conservative, I will assume I am paying full closing costs here.At the moment, I have ~$25k in a HYSA and expect to save another $10k from my W-2 before I start putting offers in.

You usually can do these loans with NO points, you just need to work with a broker who has access to dozens of lenders as there are plenty of lenders that can provide these type of loans with No Points.