@Danny Lambert so, just did one last month.Both buyer and seller used LLC name on the offer, but the owner or manger for the LLC had to have their signature block on the offer and signature.

I've sold a lot of duplexes's over in this area and just recently moved a triplex on the 53XX block of chestnut st, I'd love to help you find your next home run deal!

The downtown area, about 4 blocks away, is going through gentrification.  

Anyways - somewhere at WSU they have an architects drawing showing what their future plans are - I believe most of their projected growth is from 17th St to the S bounded by hillside/Oliver of course - one of the Farhas has known this for a while and that's why he owns most everything within a block or two of 17th and hillside.   

Take a look at the Solds in the blocks around the subject property. 

The cost to move the trailers plus the risk to them that the tenants would want to move to the new location mean that it is not likely the block owner would do anything. 

It is a small (real small) duplex in Mission Beach, ~1 block from the ocean. 

However he is saying it’s going to be a tough grind because its a old block house that had tons of concrete on inside walls & during the demolition the extra manpower it took...we wanted an open floor plan.

Using your analogy with the 2/1, you need to find it for lets say ~130k and it needs 70k worth of repairs/remodeling to give you an APR in the 250-300k range and make sure you can rent it for >2k a month. in order to make the greatest cash flow you need to find the most rundown houses to fix, or go on the less desirable areas. unfortunately that's where the majority of investors are as well. i'll give you an example of one i just completed. it is in an up and coming neighborhood. some parts are scary, while new construction of luxury townhouses are within a block. it's a duplex with a 3/1 and a 2/1 (i know i said i wouldn't usualy get these, but it was a really good deal).

In 2018 it’s probably a better indicator of a bad neighborhood or something situationally malicious IMHO