Generally speaking the type of people renting a mobile home in a trailer park are one step from homeless.

On the other side of the spectrum, I leased a 6 bedroom home I owned in a very marginal neighborhood to a husband and wife who rent rooms to mothers and children escaping from abusive relationships who have money but don’t want to stay at a homeless shelter but want counseling and companionship.  

I knew that I would only be living in my home less than a year before renting it out so I bought a VA Vendee property.

Property is vacant (despite some homeless guys) and in a bad shape.

If you have listened to many of them so far, you'll know that there have been people who with time and dedication and focus have gone from situations worse than yours (i.e. actually broke, jobless, and homeless) to successful in real estate.

I flip and have rentals in a rapidly gentrifying area and it's still messy at times so you have to be sure you are comfortable with the homeless/squatters/addicts/mentally ill that will be your neighbors for a few years until they are pushed out. 90% of them are harmless and can easily be good neighbors if you treat them kindly and with respect.

You aren't renting for the sole purpose of providing free housing to the homeless, you don't renovate every home to donate it to someone in need, and the professionals you use don't provide their services for free. $500 for a transaction is free for the amount of time involved.

Seriously: try living as a homeless person for at least two years and see if that changes your perspective.Do you at least have a car you own where you can sleep when you're "between deals"?

Displacement of those residents would be a sad thing.To paint the picture to them, I would make a formal request to that same county contact or department:  you need full details on homeless shelters and programs in that area.  

They built a 5 story, 36 unit complex to house the homeless, back in 2014, so I'd think they would have xp with holding multis of this size and type.https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-en...