As you start your landlord journey (if you will be managing), I have a short blog posts on the classics of landlord literature.

Listen to QUALITY podcasts (BP is a great source) or read some of the classic books (as cliche as it is to suggest "Rich Dad Poor Dad," it is considered the Real Estate Bible for a reason. )5- DUE DILLIGENCE- especially when it comes to wholesale deals.

How long will this old view be available until all members switch over to the new one OR will there always be a classic mode??

You see Rina, Rolfe spent three days painting a picture of:1 - The perfect business (high gross margins, high barriers to future competition (quasi local monopolies), increasing demand).2 - Claimed that this perfect business counterintuitively sells for a big discount to its true value - and painted a plausible dual reason for it:a - the stigma premium - mobile homes are yucky and embarassing, therefore demand for them is lower than would be expectedb - the current set of owners of this asset class (mom and pop) are so stupid and lazy that they have priced the rents of the asset class lower than they should be compared to apartments.3 - He then masterfully executed the classic sales technique of creating a sense of urgency - saying that the current fragmentation and irrational discount-to-value of this asset class (mobile home parks) will soon expire because "mom and pop" are dying off, and will be selling out to professional investors with huge pools of capital.4 - He claimed that when this de-fragmentation occurs (the next 10 years) the discount-to-value will disappear and that the real value of the rents of mobile homes will finally be extracted through inevitable professional management.Item number 4, Rolfe must know, makes any experienced investor salivate - it's like cat nip.

I've been analyzing some of the classic texts (namely Nickerson) and am wondering who is your typical duplex buyer (after renovations) in 2015?  

She said that she drives a 1960s muscle car, she likes the classics!"

It seems to be the classic case of "who you know." 

Its weird because there are crappy run down apartments and houses next door to beautiful restored classic mini mansions.

It's the classic 'value proposition' model that REI celebrate in (primarily population) growth centric areas.

Many of those published before the crash are classics - Think and Grow Rich, etc.Some, however, published before or around the crash, do not reflect the current legal and economic climates.