Now we are mostly scaling our business with larger communities but I've used many different creative finance strategies including seller finance, private lending, hard-money, collateral from other properties, and lease-options. 

Don't split the work between multiple contractors if possible, finding one to do all or most of the work will keep prices down.Challenges were finding replacement pieces for certain items as manufactured homes were very different than stick built as well as going through state guidelines for affixing the house to the land

and split the difference?

Or do you mean 4 SFRs on that lot, which would be a different story?

Whether it’s sprucing up a property with a few renovations or doing a full-scale flip, a good contractor can make all the difference.

Five units and above is a commercial property, and is handled differently in the market.

Use a payment processor to pay the original note and any wrap if there is a 2nd position secondary note that pays the seller the difference between their current mortgage and the total sale value. 

It also means you don't have to learn two different ways of doing things. 

Feedback has not suggested property needs additional repairs/work, only that they are looking in a different area.

These will also have different mature/resell dates.