You don’t get CA level appreciation in Kansas City.Some areas are high crime so need make sure you understand the neighborhood you are investing in, like any city all locations are not equal.Very car centric city, mass transit is not widely used, people don’t walk, they drive outside of a few very walkable locations in heart of the city. 

Is it normal that a Turnkey provider doesn't allow you to send your contractor to check the house before closing ?

I find that depending on the market $300-500/mo are fairly normal and if compared to what you would pay with a single family home on some utilities, maintenance, and management, it's a good deal.

I like checking what the inside of the car they showed up in looks like.

Once you retire the title and place a mobile home on its own lot then our county taxes as real property and we pay property taxes like a stick built home vs a mobile home in a mobile home park which is taxed like a car - vehicle tag.4. 

I normally get a monthly statement and a copy of all bills.

Desperate - experienced, nothing to lose type of situation, and the opportunity is so amazing that it is life changing  (Ah what the heck, he was already on the edge, it may work, it may not, but he was in a desperate situation)I wouldn't recommend it for normal people.

Quote from @Joel Oh:  Yes, but you aren't selling a car.

Normally they would mix the concrete by hand. 

We normally get a ton of candidates but few that make it to showing status.