If you make it seem like you are helping someone, or if you try to help but harm them, or if you get their equity by buying it from them under market, you might be put into the crosshairs of a district attorney for portraying yourself as a foreclosure consultant.

Morally I guess it’s up to you, I figure if I don’t someone else will so what’s the harm.

I've been looking into MH investing for quite some time now (amongst other things) and recently I drove to a MHP near my work place.

In general there is no harm in it.

If I understand this correctly, then it would be more harmful for us to perform the above strategy due to the negative tax implications.

My agent said that he would help (which he never did), my brother (who was a partner at the time) said what harm can this old man do?

Account Closed: There is no harm in investing from an Inherited IRA by private lending.. assuming you are the one educating the lender, then you do have to be aware that the lenders IRA is an inherited IRA and could be subject to RMD, so make sure to pay the interest on time so that come time to make the required minimum distributions there is adequate cash on hand for the account owner.

But If I don't meet the minimum, they would quietly remove me from the GP, so no harm is done.Can this tactic work?

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.

This is all to say that in addition to proximity to workplace, quality of schools, etc, there's a premium put on the relative diversity and openness I would argue.