My first suggestion is to only look out of state after you have "cut your teeth" closer to home where you can experience and learn from the process way more quickly. 

If not and you have different carriers for you home and auto insurance, see if the other carrier can do an Umbrella for you. 

@Chi Sastry,I think Tennessee is generally a good state to buy in, though I will note that the 10 markets you listed are very different in terms of demographics, average rents, home prices, yields, and so on.Of this list, I’m most familiar with Chattanooga so I’ll offer a few details.

I'm particularly passionate about  Passive IncomeOutside of real estate, I enjoy family, working out, running 2 real estate investors group in Orlando, and creating relationships, and lastly healthy water and clean air purification for homes, schools, for all real estate actually as there is pollution and sickness because of caamination ... our water and the air we. breathe.I'm excited to learn and connect with you all!

I'm an experienced investor, agent, and a project manager for an established general contractor, focused mostly on historic preservation, custom homes, and investment properties (flips and holds). 

I had a built-in sauna in my last home.

Since you said tiny homes, this is probably not an option.  

Hi, Bought my single family home back in May, spent 3.5 months rehabbing it(back and forth from Columbus to Dayton on weekends only).

A bank typically will be challenging as you will need 30% down. 

We have solid tenants in our LTR so we are looking at buying more homes to do as STR/MTR hybrid and looking to learn more about how to use our investments and money more wisely ie BRRRR, etc.