Its why most commercial real estate loans secured by manufactured housing is actually secured by the PADS not the buildings

For rental properties there are very few cases where you should be paying more than 30-40K for a brand new singlewide, and then another 10K per pad to get the infrastructure in place.  

I generally remove the carpet because it gets in the fibers and padding you just can’t remove it well enough.Great tip.

Not the cash flow numbers I am shooting for but this property is merely a launch pad for my vacation rental investing, a great lesson in rehabbing yourself, and my very first deal!!!

Carpet and padding on the upper unit should work as well.

He said my best bet is to remove all carpet and padding, then seal the subfloor with oil-based Kilz primer before installing any new floorcovering.Does this sound like good advice?

I always attribute the failure to the sellers lack of ability to see my GRAND VISION of how we would both end up BAJILLIONAIRES after the deal is complete, but any advice you could lend to close these kind of deals other than I need a padded room and some Tony Robbins tapes would be much appreciated!

My brother gets 99% from vrbo at his Mammoth June pad.

I would definitely pad any rehab estimates and budget for more than you think they will come out to.

I assume they are also hiring their brother the plumber and sister the electrician and padding their pairs as well.