The Fed tried to stimulate lending by dropping rates, which should have increased the pool of buyers and therefore curtailed the growth of, or in fact reduced, rental rates relative to what they would have been immediately after the crash, and perhaps suppressed growth of rental rates since that point.The oddest thing about the graph comparing rent rates to home prices, though, is that rent rates continue at a steady clip almost completely irrespective of home prices, which leads me to believe that the types of consumers demanding homes are fundamentally different from the types of consumers demanding to rent.

There are still rental deals available, although I'm not a big fan of CA from a risk/yield perspective or a tenant law perspective, but for people with different appetites (or really big companies with the ability to pass risk on to low-cost capital), there is certainly still enough inventory to go around.

An older building might have been grandfathered in and now must be updated with new fire suppression and sprinkler systems, structure upgrades, greater parking requirement ratios that reduces building size, etc.  

So not sure if that might suppress rental growth as these new properties come online in the SW area?

More importantly, you will be able to discuss what the other person is looking for and what they think about this market and their appetite for different types of deals. 

Our realtor for our personal home buying/selling has learned of my interest to get into properties and has kept on the lookout for potential properties within my appetite.

Portfolio lenders have appetites for only what they know. 

You can find out which banks have an appetite for parks by asking the MH/RV brokers in your area, networking through other owners of parks in your area, or simply obtain list of the smaller banks in your area and just call them to see if they lend on MH/RV parks.

NNN acquisition criteria really varies depending on your risk appetite. 

There are also tons of local / community banks that all know the portfolio loan game and have a huge appetite for SFR loans.