They also set up their own mortgage servicing arm to do it in-house, as opposed to farming it out to a third party. 

I manage hundreds of rentals and most of them are caulked every 5 - 10 years.DR Horton was the builder, and after we did two inspections and closed on the house, we found out that a good chunk of the roof was missing - they quickly finished the roofing. 

A lot of our housing stock here has finished basements or in-law suites, so with something like that you can generate significant rental income for an inexpensive conversion. 

If I were investing in eastern WA, or where my extended family lives in Pennsylvania, those 100k houses in good condition are a real thing there.  

We plan to stay in this house for more than 5 years unless another great opportunity arises, but maybe it is best to allocate a bigger portion of savings to our real estate investment savings account than our home improvement savings account for the first few years.

If you are going to do direct to seller then yes, worth it!

Any general advice is much appreciated.You should house hack to start.

I thankful for finding this app through a book I have been reading.But I would like to inquire in regard to introducing myself both to sellers and cash buyers.

Don't you put the sellers and the buyers on your own marketing lists?

Don't split the work between multiple contractors if possible, finding one to do all or most of the work will keep prices down.Challenges were finding replacement pieces for certain items as manufactured homes were very different than stick built as well as going through state guidelines for affixing the house to the land