Most have large homes and sharing that home for some of months or years may create the distinction between losing the house and keeping it.8.

Buying and selling a MH in Texas has its own distinct set of rules and laws apart from real estate and cars.http://www.tdhca.state.tx.us/mh/

This market, therefore, is highly distinct from the one that drove the US off a financial cliff in 2008.

That commercial vs. residential distinction for the loan is based on Fannie Mae guidelines and has nothing to do with the IRS guidelines for taxes.For the appreciation question and the NAR data, note that that data is nominal.

So, since the distinction between Loan-to-Purchase and Loan-to-ARV is blurred anyway, why not just lend based on purchase, is the way I look at it.The amount of skin in the game varies depending on the deal and my relationship with the rehabber.  

Thanks for the good comments guys.Bill Gulley I've never came across an article about this topic on here but I am pretty new to this site, so its good to know this has been addressed before on here.Thats an interesting distinction you make about operator v. investor.  

But I get the distinct impression that some of these guys don't like working with investors (could be because that one of them actually told me this... lol)...

If you're saying that they have the same requirements as formal loan mods then yes, everyone is doing it wrong.Please show where the is any different distinction between a purchase money mortgage financed by a private party, HML or and equity mortgage loan financed by equity and a mortgage funded by XYZ Bank for any purchase or refinance under the loan modification rules.

Also make sure there's a distinction between calendar days and business days.  

Thanks to such commitments among our partners to quality and excellence this earns the distinction as an opportunistic real estate development of luxury single-story residential property.Scope of Property Development:A 55 unit single-family community of luxury, low-maintenance, detached ranch-style homes on approximately 17 acres.