Joe Grebe I use Emergency savings for unexpected events in life (job loss, death of a loved one, transmission failing, etc.)Vehicle maintenance is a regular occurrence, something you know is coming: oil changes, new tires, brakes, minor repairs, etc.

We own a 97-pad mobile home park near Fort Bragg/Fayetteville, North Carolina that's currently 50% occupied with 50% TOH and 50% POH. 

So we bought a house with a fully finished basement, it's a 2 bed, 1 bath with a full kitchen (fridge, sink, stove) and washer/dryer hook ups with it's own separate entrance and paved parking pad.

However, if you need to fill pads and make them profitable, and it's tough to get people to move there to just collect lot rents after marketing and offering incentives, worst case you could buy mobile homes and rent them out to make the pads performing, and then slowly convert the rentals to owner occupants over the years as allowed. 

He might add a few days as extra padding.

Cheapest isn't the best.Get the bid, pad it by 20%, and deduct that from their price, along with all other necessary rehab work the needs to be done.The longer the property sits on the market, the better it is for you at the negotiating table.

Since the property is pad for and the only carrying cost I have right now is ins and tax, I'm going to secure more funds to finish the project which should take another three weeks, but I'm planning for four weeks just in case.

You can not use your contractors pricing as he is padding the estimate for his own benefit.

I would suggest pouring a small concrete pad, or installing crushed rock in the area between the AC and the structure, to prevent the need for weedwacking the area.

The code bots must think I'm trying to pad their vote counts :D