They are a national bank, so most states should be available.For Texas or Colorado, check out Security Service Federal Credit Union. 

Short of the NOLA metro area, a massive portion of LA is considered rural enough to be eligible under that program, and has a few extra features that the FHA loans don't, most significantly is 100% finance option (zero down payment), but also can support new builds, such as you picking some land, dropping in septic and well, and then building a new home (or placing a permanently attached mobile), additionally, while there is a PMI requirement, the rate for the PMI is lower than FHA's requirements.Also, check out LHC below, as they may additionally throw in some dollars towards your purchase, regardless of if you use FHA, USDA or Conventional, so you might be able to get them to cover a good chunk or all of your closing costs.

Check out the many podcasts on this site.

Check out the Phoenix market.

(For instance, check out a deal diary from one of our clients.

Checkout Mark Kohler on YouTube.  

That's is to at least check out the house.ThanksKunal M.

Check out the cost to remediate mold in the local area. 

Dave Van Horn's article was a good eye opener for me; find a few good tourist attractive areas that you'd like to travel to once a year or more, then check out the short-term rental market there.

Check out some of the REIAs and jump over to some trust sales to introduce yourself - Those are probably people who have their feet on the ground where you're looking to learn more.