Most of the successful investors I know subscribe to the "inch wide, mile deep" theory.

If it’s illegal I just can’t see why it would be so widely recommended.

@Jim Adrian thanks for mentioning the ADA design - the good news is the paved access pathways are pretty good although he'll need to measure for width but everything commercial is on the first floor and pretty wide open.

I got hit in Oregon for the first time last year  Copper thieves in a new home community I built.. but being the dumb @$$ they are they ripped copper from the wall and left the whole roll of wire sitting in the garage.. we don't secure new construction here at all until the Garage door goes on.. so its wide open for copper and HVAC and water heater.. 

Not sure how it is in the US, as I'm based in Spain, but here agents work for the seller and so the buyer is left wide open for pushy, rushed deals etc.

I don't like them, but I think their brand recognition is so strong nation wide that they will be here for the long term.

the few MHPs I have owned over the years whilie reposition plays IE cleaning the tweakers out.. were a little easier.. and once stabilized Much easier.. we just gave them the MH and just charged space rent.. that is what I do when ever I buy a park I either sell those single wide's for a few grand or give them to the tenants.. so I value them purely like a lender would  just on pad rent.. not on the house rent..   

My local codes allow for only a 3ft (or 10% of the lot width) side yard width, so a 30ft wide lot allows for a 24ft wide house.

Although prior to that time, most of the responsibility for finding and vetting the investment property will fall more on myself and the other lesser money partner, but I am not sure if that alone is enough to make up for the money disparity, given that once we have the property most of the day to day activities will be dealt with by a property manager.

CA is a foreign country.. and I learned this as a HML there.. not nearly as cut and dry as being a lender in the US>. the judges in CA have wide latitude to cram down your rate.. give borrower more time etc etc..