You might investigate a city waiver to partition from one property into three separate APNs. 

We happen to stumble upon the idea of REI through friends of ours who own 3 rent houses in the area and the more we investigated the possibility, the more acquaintances we found that do it, and the more we saw that it felt our lifestyle and life goals (to be financially independent and able to do missions work). 

I have investigated the crop/agriculture route, and haven't ruled it out.  

His answer was that a car ran into the building and the buyer is on board but can't close until the insurance company investigates or something is finished, some b.s...

Also worth investigating what flood insurance will cost the buyer, if it's available at all.  

They might not hang around with government agencies showing up wanting to investigate them.  

@Maverick Pate]I'm investigating the exact same thing.Some companies will send you these homes, with various sizes, pre-assembled.

Unless there are rules about tax sales in your jurisdiction that allow a lengthy time for full payment and investigations / appraisals / title searches on the property (enough time to process a loan), no lender is going to be able to give you a mortgage.

Get the deal signed, then do "forensic" accounting to show your bank it cash flows. 

it's up to the investor to do their due diligence, read the fine print and investigate as much as possible.