You're brave and valuable to others for sharing these mistakes, and it is this sort of forthcoming-ness that demonstrates you're capable of cutting to the chase, so I am sure you'll take some of the great advice above.  

There’s 3 long term tenants in it and 1 that’s ness was who is now at market rent.

His nephew was a dealer and running his BID-NESS of out one of my places.

my area has been dependent on coal since the 70's not sure what new residents will do for work. then of course many people that grow up in the rural-ness can't wait to get out to the vibrant economies.

Financial partners are a bit more challenging, because of the "new-ness" of tiny houses.

I was impressed by his professionalism, and unassuming, unpretentious Just-a-Normal-Guy-ness.

Sure SS and MHPs are somewhat counter cyclical, but I think their recession-proof-ness has been a bit over hyped.   

I have a bit of handy-ness to me and love working on home improvement projects, how stringent are the 203k guidelines on finding licensed contractors vs DIY?

You just happen to be on the wrong side of the one sided-ness...

My two big limitations at the moment are (1) lack of general real estate experience and (2) handy-ness (I'm not going to be installing a countertop anytime soon and contractors are hard to come by here, so buying a SFH and doing a reno myself are unlikely).