Dayton is a small town close to Chattanooga / Cleveland and I am looking for your advise /experience on the best agents that can assist with sourcing a tenant, collecting rent, repairs, management and etc.

I look at the source of the info the list brokers get their info from.

You will have difficulty finding a loan for repairs unless it's a private source.

Looking for additional sources of capital and am applying for personal and business lines of credit (real estate business).  

The BP Podcasts have been a major source of inspiration & learning for me.Over the last 4 years @Joshua Dorkin & @Brandon Turner have hosted 216 episodes where the amazing guests have shared a wealth of knowledge for all of us to learn from.I kept looking for ways to quickly find episodes which were related to a specific topic I was exploring so that I could have marathon learning sessions which were focused on that particular topic.The best I could find was this link, but it doesn't seem to have been update in a long time.So I put together an organized and categorized Google Sheet of the podcasts (The themes are based on the titles, I'll try to refine the themes as I listen to them). 

has their been any activity in the area that would affect ground water? 

My husband and I both have busy careers, and I'm looking for sources of passive income.

And you might break out rent and other sources of income. 

Expecting you to cash flow the project from outside sources of income does not sound practical.

Meetup.com is a good source to find networking events.