A professional property manager should handle the heavy lifting, ensuring your investment is protected and profitable without adding stress to your plate.

In that way, Roofstock sellers continue to profit from their buyers after selling the properties.

First, I’m not really seeing enough cushion in certain popular areas for investors to realistically hit a 30% profit margin.

The baked in assumption to "continued cash flow" is that you stay profitable.

What about having to break even, or even feed the property every month $200 for those same 36 months, but at sale, could net a $75K-$100K profit?

.: I am trying to learn and understand... someone told me that its not just size of the home or level of the flip that determines profit, and that in some markets, what is considered a typical profit is 300k based on the 70% ARV formula.

There is way too much risk here and no profit.

Don't split the work between multiple contractors if possible, finding one to do all or most of the work will keep prices down.Challenges were finding replacement pieces for certain items as manufactured homes were very different than stick built as well as going through state guidelines for affixing the house to the land Hey @David Jesperson, welcome to the BP Forum and congrats on completing your first solo deal AND making a nice profit!

If it's a good rental and you don't need to sell, sit tight but if you can sell at a profit and reinvest into a better property I would suggest that. 

Check their nightly rate, occupancy and amenities.That will give you a pretty good idea of need and profitability.