Also, make sure to keep up with grass cuts while it is vacant or the city will fine you and those tickets are expensive.

Rounding out the top 10 of affordable homeownership cities were Flint, Michigan; Toledo, Ohio; Detroit; Akron, Ohio; Warren, Michigan; Pittsburgh; Yuma, Arizona; Springfield, Illinois; and Palm Bay, Florida.

I'm in Dallas area if you need some eyes in the location if you buy any properties round this area. 

Quote from @John Carbone: also the pool cabin pumpers during Covid did exceptionally well when kids were doing school from home and there was a lot of demand year round for pools in off peak times…now those pool cabins sit empty because kids are in school and people aren’t willing to pay a premium to stay so the place sits unoccupied.

It’s not quite zoned for actual storage units but I could get away with one bigger building for a single business.

Or is there a reasonable population of year round renters. 

Didn’t get a great answer as to why it didn’t work in round 1.

In the military as I visited different units as the chaplain, most would voice the same sentiment in a round about way, "the only way the mission succeeds is based on what we do and without us their would be mission failure." 

If utilities are involved its HIGHLY unlikely it is a perfectly round number like $5k. 3.

Thanks :) If the difference in budget is $10k, it will be a rounding error in the grand scheme of things.