whatever you stance on that, it has created a situation where we (americans) look down on factory built homes.Without the artificial input I believe we would have giant , efficient, factories in every city pumping out modular homes, that are green, affordable and accepted as "normal" and probably cost as much as a nice new truck.If you have ever built a new home, the insanity of "site built" becomes apparent as the waste of materials and man hours can be staggering.

Before it was the 0% interest balloon mortgages that created much of the problem (not nearly the only cause) and now it is the artificially low interest rate.

I am sure you also know that one bad year, makes the next year look artificially better.

The main pro that I see is the low price point and that is it, but that price point is artificially low in most cases due to the land lease or high HOA in most parks.

In my view paying down or completely paying off a few of the better performing properties in this portfolio may be the least stressful option and would increase cashflow.Another thing I'm curious about is this "ghost cashflow" or "artificial cashflow" as you put it.

Subtract from that $500 your expenses on a property and you will have negative cash flow from the property itself = liability.One could give a value of zero to your cash to artificially increase the cash flow from the property but what investor would place zero value on their cash.

The mortgage guys really hurting are the ones that built their practice on the low hanging fruit house of cards of artificially low rates, which is rate and term refinance business from a call center cubicle thingie.

Cash buyers prefer to ignore this fact to appear to enhance or take advantage of artificial returns.

Buying artificial cash flow is extremely expensive and counter productive to the intent of investing in income producing real-estate.How do you see this increasing your returns.

"Deciding" to artificially lower these amounts in order to qualify for a mortgage is otherwise known as mortgage fraud.