Additionally, the price point is still cheap enough to find the 1% rule and positive cash flow and there's amazing appreciation potential.

Does anyone know of a calculator where I can plug in the additional yearly pay down along with the appreciation rate of my area? 

All this in addition to 6 other lease violations... 

In addition to interest and repairs, you can deduct off a 27 year depreciation on the home. 

I’ve realized I need additional help—someone local, like an assistant.Here’s my idea: I was thinking of purchasing a small piece of property and putting something modest on it, like a single-wide home or a similar small structure.

Prices a few years ago were based on expectations of (in addition to interest rates staying low): - Then current operating cost assumptions (like insurance cost expectations being flat)- A seeming disregard for record levels of new inventory / supply hitting the market- Extremely high inbound migration expectations which are likely to not be met, due to both natural disasters and the boomerang effect when people from California or the Northeast move to the American South and hate every minute of the humidity, the large and relentless swarm of insects, and the occasional hurricane. 

I heard that you would need to get neighborhood approval in addition to the city approval... 

These are professionals with additional training and a stricter code of ethics.

Thanks for any additional input you have time to put forth. 

Additionally, be sure to have an accurate ledger and your signed lease agreement.