Lots of people who have trailers don't own the property they are on and sell them.As for the owner of the land expecting tenants to do repairs-there shouldn't be many repairs required to the land, just the trailer that is on it (which your grandmother owns and should be responsible for maintaining). 

@Chris Hains  all in price , vs what you are expecting to sell it for , KEEP IT SIMPLE.

Those failures are  more negligent than a PM allowing a guest who paid with expectation to stay at the house to remain there in the middle of winter when they arrived on a Friday evening as you described.For now you will have to rely upon insurance, I don't believe the PM acted unreasonably given the circumstances.

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Then I put about $45,000 in fixing it up and I expect the appraisal to come back within the next couple of days at $240,000 or higher. 

Their cost basis is about $33k, the agreed upon purchase price is $250K and the expected appraisal might be around $350k-$400k. 

I'd expect these to pop up along the route.

What are yall using for your expected maintenance cost of a Mobile Home?

Ultimately if we go down SFH route (and not rely on STR or MTR), it seems that we would have to buy multiple properties around median price point where the appreciation is most expected?

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