We are in a great cash position to be able to put a good down payment, but conversations I've had about getting a mortgage have turned negative real quick just because I don't have a "regular" job.

Keep saving money until you land a regular full-time job again, get the job to confirm your salary, and then start looking once cleared by a lender.

Crime was way more than it was shown in city database as most of the things were never reported.Actual rent collection was only $4200 by 18 tenantsPark had very bad repo in area (Which was known to us)What we did after buying:Worked on road (new milling road), removed extra trees, cleaned 40-50 dumpster of trash.Worked with city development agencies to remove bad tenants via evictions or stationed police officers on weekend to deteriorate drug traffic, incentivized good tenants to provide us video /call cops with videos so that cops visits are frequent.Removed bad homes and brought in 7-8 newer homes from other parks.Repaired around 19 houses in last 18 months and brought up average rent $680 per home.

You can also check your own FICO at myFico.com and start to clean up any errors. 

I'd consider partnering up with someone and offering management, lead generation, cleaning, turning, renos, etc for either free or a low rate to understand the game and build up that network.

Tell them the property will be in better shape than with long-term tenants because it's getting cleaned 1-2x per week. 

Your rental property is no different than a regular business.

Even if you were to fully automate, still need someone to reset the units and clean them up. 

We keep a very clean job site throughout the build, or at least as clean as these things can be. 

Minimum credit score 700 No evictions/ clean backgroundincome at least 2.5 times the rent.