Sounds like you’re an excel wiz and this is just one variable factor. I

Agreed, also the main factor is whether this product still fits their investment portfolio, if its crossed, they won't disrupt the entire portfolio just to make a $100k.My experience in getting REITs to sell is to really do your homework and show that this property (and others) don't fit their investment thesis anymore.

The sections were assembled in a factory and brought to the construction site by a truck with a boom and hoist to aid in assembly.

The mess factor is very high.

It turned out that they were purchased by a company that also owned Ron Legrand’s BS factory six months before we took them on as a distributor.”Another reader tells me LeGrand says he was once a carnival skeeball concession operator.

The main factor is the TIME involved.

Bubb,"Modular home" and "trailer park" are mutually exclusive, unless you mean a house built on a foundation on a lot adjoining or appurtenant to a trailer park, as in the on-site manager's house.A modular house is stick-built in a factory in sections and the sections are assembled on a traditional foundation at the home site."

What a great name Amazon could give itself for investing into a community that needs the help and could really Help make Gary Great Again "MGGA"   However even if this does not happen there are over 4 billion dollars worth of renovations happening in the next 3-5 years on the steel mills that are coming here or expanding or the Tech center or the renovations already happening at the airport or the candy factory expanding and the Harbor that is opening up to new industrial development and the new school that is being proposed.

Your down payment factor is a big problem.  

The fear factor is that those costs can easily equal or exceed what you'd pay a 6% broker.