I favor personal control and keeping my own cash reserves, but your situation might be different.

Most towns have specific rules on this. 

It can be frustrating, but there isn't that much that I can do about it so I try not to focus too much on what I can't control. 

Was just curious on your interest there's as that's not a town brought up often when discussing NWI.

That being said, many of the smaller towns along the coast and inland have a smattering of multi-family properties, which may be a better choice if you're concerned about school district, etc.

This seems like a population that could benefit from living in rental mobile home parks.Seems like you guys could set up some "Shabby" trailers on cheap vacant land somewhere at the edge of town (cheap taxes) and get the bus route to go out there to take them to work and shopping and fill a need.Sometimes people in Texas give older mobile homes away for the hauling.At $35,750 a year that's $3,000 a month Gross (with 3 deductions), they could afford to rent cheap trailers without Section-8.All you'd need is septic, electric and propane out there.A shabby rented mobile home at the edge of town is a lot better than living in the streets (supply demand),And it might cash flow attractively (with Class-D management issues of course).Just my 2 cents on this.Good Luck!

One town over it can take a month or longer.

It is a smaller town and based on distance from Cincinnati area not as high demand.  

But now you're in it, so time to get things under control asap.1.  

Our rental experiences started when we bought our first SFH and moved out of and rented our town house in 2012.