this is clearly the fun/storage wars/small-time heist option.i also emailed first alert, the manufacturer, and they told me that if i send them a notarized statement of ownership ($15 for notary) that they'll email me the combination. this way i'll end up with a $120 not-so-safe of my own. i could sell it and make a few bucks or keep it long enough to forget it in a property at which point one of you fine people will buy the place and exercise option 1: attack it with a crowbar. plan is to open it up on sunday. i'll post what i find.

The other is a foreclosed manufactured home on 3 acres I could get cheap I think & rent.

Some examples are: lease/lease addendum docs, deposit to hold form, Move-in instructions that a tenant gets when they receive their lease documents, a form for when we deny applicants, move out instructions, etc.

Its unreal how legitimate it all looks so verify wire instructions with your title company via phone (and make sure its the title company on the phone !) 

@Isaiah Oloyede  they can be a pain if the tenants dont follow instructions .  

With a manufactured home, for flip purposes, would you go with laminate or hard wood? 

I put 8 smoke alarms in my single-family rental - Lowe's sold a 6-pack of the model I used, and then I bought two more of the same model individually.Also note that if wired detectors are required, they may not all have to be exactly the same model, but they do probably all need to be from the same manufacturer. 

Became an immigrant 4 years ago... spent 2 years in Forest Grove, Oregon and moved here in Dallas a year and a half ago for a job. 17 years experience in electronics manufacturing but zero experience in real estate.

You should download a copy of the IRS Pubs that include instructions for Schedule E, depreciation, and business expenses. 

You keep any difference.Transactional loans like this are considered almost risk-free to your lender since there would be instructions stating that you cannot buy the property until your buyer's lender has funded their side of the purchase, and presumably won't pull out within that few minute to few hour interim.Taking any longer than a day for you to sell your purchase to C is no longer risk-free since there is time for C's lender to pull out.