Check out https://foreclosuresdaily.com/.

Investing out of state can totally work, but you'll likely need to make trips to Florida to check out properties and manage things.

Also, if you setup a servicing company to manage the payments (usually like $25-35 a month), they can setup an escrow account for taxes and insurance as well and cut a check to her Trust bank account each month.

I keep seeing the Red Stick REIA group pop on here for all my Baton Rouge folks, definitely need to check that out. 

We may need to make another trip to go check that market out.

It’s not easy it’s not fast, but the checks are huge and if you’re serious about doing this strictly to becoming an investor, I would go all hands on deck making all your commission checks go towards your goal using it all to be up your credit, save and put into an income property.

Other factors that you should check are:1. does the citizens policy provide better coverage than the separate policies or the reverse2. how does the claims paying ability of citizens compare to the two separate policies3. is either more likely to renew coverage 

Reach out to him on BP and ask questions, check out the book he wrote.

They don't charge application fees or security deposits, don't do background checks - they take ANY S8 tenant no matter how bad they are:(You really want Class C and B-minus areas for solid S8 tenants.Let us know what else we can assist you with.

I also recommend you checking out the Ohio market.