and moving my family to the Southwest/Sarasota area of Florida.  

Re:venture consulting says"The collapse is most notable in the Southwest and Mountain West areas of the country, where Airbnb revenue per listing is down 40-50% YoY.

I've been a pod-cast listening lurker for a VERY long time, and finally got frustrated with my inability to find the right "niche". I didn't feel like I was enough of a "big deal" to use this forum, but every other fo...

I am also in Washington state, currently in the southwest part, so every time I make a purchase I get asked "Washington resident?"

My wife and our 9 children (no typo :D) live in southwest Washington, right across the border from Portland, Oregon.

There are certainly guys in our company that have had much success brokering manufactured home communities, however they mostly focus on seniors housing and the much "cleaner" stuff that tends to be found in the West, Southwest, Florida, etc., whereas I would be targeting midwestern states such as Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana, and later on Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma where the parks tend to be a bit lower quality and are often rurally located.For this to work, I believe I need at least a minimum of 1,200 or so parks in my farm area, each with a minimum of 50 to 60 lots, and a value of somewhere between $750k to $4M. --- 1,200 parks is an estimate based on my experience in the apartment world; this number could be higher or lower depending on the velocity of this product type in my markets.--- 50 to 60 lots because my understanding is that 40 to 50 lots is the minimum number of lots needed to provide the economies of scale to reward a passive/remote investor, and from what I've seen even the nicest parks in the Midwest typically don't trade for much more than $20k/lot with the bulk of them trading closer to $10k/lot or less; I would prefer that the majority of the properties in my database are large enough so that the prospective buyer market is not limited to a local buyer.

We have a couple park in southwest Michigan and are looking to fill 6 vacant spots.

The market in the New River Valley (Southwest Virginia) has become hot and it is tough for me to find deals using web-based searches. 

Hey y'all, and greetings from southwest VA!

This is the southwest part of the metro area, including Overland Park, Lenexa, Olathe, and many other suburbs.