You could say that Real Estate is in both my husband and my DNA yet in two different ways;Growing up my parents not only built their own home (including falling the trees and milling the lumber themselves) but also flipped a single family home and remodeled a ski resort condo turning it into a vacation rental.

My current mode is to buy distressed, repair to conventional funding standards, and unload quickly at a discount so that the buyer will have immediate equity and possibly continue improving the house to maximize returns or place a tenant for cash flow.But perhaps I'm missing the mark.If you are a first time buyer looking for your first home to invest in, what is important to you? 

Therefore a MH that is in such bad shape that it must given away to unload, isn't going to return much of a profit.

I'd unload.

I already sold a few non performing assets to unload on the stock market when its riped to enter 

They'll unload it to get rid of the headache.

Lumber quality was much better, building practices were better and dare I say craftsmen were generally better. 

Sometimes you just happen to hit the bank when they have to unload the property. 

Always run the most conservative numbers that you can find reasonable to ensure that you have a cushion included in the project.The majority of people do not sell their "cash cows," they unload their headaches.

Instead of dealing with tenants and toilets, he'll be collecting money each month after unloading what may be his headache property.