Duke Energy was very easy to work with and get set up.

Now the million-dollar question is whether to pull the trigger on the build given the ominous/uncertain economic outlook. 

The market is shifting and the margins are shrinking. 10 years of stratospheric economic rise has given the market LOTS of competition and rising interest rates are having a real effect on deals.

Most MFG. homes have a top end ceiling of sorts, meaning the value of the home generally wont exceed XYZ value while stick built homes don't tend to have those ceilings or if they do its a much higher range.Be careful of what the effective economic life will be as listed on the appraisal.

Even legendary billionaire investor Warren Buffett, with all of his endeavors into energy, insurance companies and holding sizable stakes in companies like Coke and Wells Fargo, still calls his own home his best investment ever.

Handymen are hard to find because the economics are horrible.My solution has been to scale my work up.

@Brendan TurnerBrendan,Sounds like you have the drive, attitude and energy to get this done.

If only they'd direct their creative energies into something positive...

I need investors to enter the agreement with the same energy as the 1st time otherwise I and like many others with integrity and been doing this for any amount of time will simply walk away.

The proper way for a business to operate is to judge applicants/tenants based on economic impact only.