These products have common characteristics, they raise capital, find deal/s, execute some sort of wealth generating plan, and return capital.

To be good at real estate investing you must extensively understand the characteristics of your community.

If they choose a property without considering seasonality, they should not expect the property to rent quickly this time of the year.There are property characteristics that make an SFR very hard to rent.

Jealously and envy is a characteristic many have. 

@Antonio Bodley it depends, maybe a few years and the entire state and then try to find similar characteristics such as town size, parcel size, utilities access, zoning use (residential/commercial) etc.

There could be two MHPs next to each other and moving a home from one park into the other park could instantly double or halve its value due to the characteristics of the park (ie. lot rent, amenities, occupancy).

If not, you limit yourself to the single Quadrant...... yourself.Picking your Partners is a skill that needs to be learned.The most important Characteristics of a Partner is his honesty and integrity.Even the Banks check that out by doing a Credit Score and looking at all your Assets and Employment History.You can do the same and more.

The best part of the vetting process is it weeds out shady providers and brings out characteristics of peoples to see if you even want to work with them.

I would recommend you keep trying until you find one that has all the characteristics you want, eventually you'll find that diamond in the rough.  

When soil characteristic on one end of the foundation is different than the other end, you'll start to see the differential settlement over time.Repair options would really depend on your foundation type and existing soil profile but my approach would be to install helical anchors along the perimeter of your foundation to level and, most importantly, transfer your load to soil layer that can sustain the design load.