Is it an old piece of junk mobile home or is a newer nice home.

Drinking plenty of water and bringing along nuts/trail mix or a piece of fruit while out on the road has definitely been a plus in my experience.

Given your background and interest in foreclosure and pre-foreclosure purchases, here are some pieces of advice to help you succeed in this niche market.

I currently own my primary residence and recently decided to buy a piece of raw land where my father’s construction company is, and with his help,  build a single family home on it which will become a long term rental when completed. 

After a default of 90 days, I take the property back with a piece of paper. 

@Elliott BeckstromA couple thoughts on your potential STR/MTR in Denver:-- There's a hard distinction between STR and MTR in the eyes of Denver city government. 

It’s not that easy and even when you believe you have all the puzzle pieces in place, you will be replacing those pieces constantly.

They say you are investing in land, but because you are paying $15k for maybe $1,500 in land, you are really investing in the business.If the business fails, you will probably not be able to sell the land -- it's an incredibly small piece of land that is too small to be individually farmed (and therefore tough to individually sell).Vet the business - that's what you are investing in.  

HI - not sure if linking is allowed here but I just put out a piece on advice on this exact topic (https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/517/topics/1196250-tip-...) - you should be OK but it would behoove you greatly to get some sort of documentation like a BPO (Broker Price Opinion) of the value now for use later in the refi!

True, I never built anything more than a treehouse when I was eleven, but technically a treehouse is a house so…All I had to do was work with Honomobo to finalize the design, get architectural drawings, receive HOA approval, get a county building permit, get a driveway permit, clear trees for a build site, find a logging truck to take those trees to a lumber mill, find a mill, find someone to take the lumber from the mill to my house, dry the lumber, take a semester of woodworking to learn how to make furniture, engineer/permit/build a septic system, get a well permitted and drilled, install a well pump, learn what a pitless is, install a water line from the pump to the foundation, install a pressure tank, connect the house plumbing to the septic and pressure tank, get the the power company to permit and install a podium for power on site, run power to the foundation, connect the power to the house, engineer a foundation, excavate, get two different sized steel wet plates fabricated, pour said foundation with wet plates mounted all at the same elevation in twenty-five precise locations, hire a crane, hire rigger, hire a welder, build a retaining wall because the dropoff from house to ground level was higher than expected, insulate the crawl space on my own by watching a YouTube video to learn how to load .22 caliber cartridges into a ramstead gun and shoot two and a half inch nails through insulation board into my foundation, badger a supply company until they finally delivered the right insulation board, get them to take away the wrong insulation board they brought that was broken by the wind and scattered into pieces all over the property, find an illusive 3x3 foot crawlspace door, learn how to use a core drill to make a four and a half inch hole in my foundation to install a code required fan to vent the crawlspace that my engineer thought was a stupid requirement and failed to tell me about, figure out what the hell going on when the Honomobo project manager tells me the measurements you gave him of the now poured foundation are wrong, have a panic attack, review plans with engineer, realized the project manager was mistaken, scream into the void, get the last available short term rental license application that had a thirty-day expiration window to pass all inspections, coordinate all subcontractors needed on install day, check with the sheriff about parking semi-trucks on the road, rent a porta potty, rent a dumpster, have coffee and donuts for everyone, oversee the Honomobo install crew that didn’t need overseeing, pass a blower test, pass state inspection, pass septic inspection, build a wooden curb to cover protruding rebar for an unpoured patio, build a temporary front door landing that could theoretically be be permanent so as to pass final county inspection, get a certificate of occupancy, pass the county short term rental inspection on the very last day before it expired to get the very last available license so that I could rent the house to make money in order to no have immediately have to sell, pour the sidewalk and patio.